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In John Cheever's last novel, Lemuel Sears is having an affair with Renee Herndon. She attends some sort of detox meeting regularly that she won't tell Lemuel about. In the meantime, politicians and organized crime figures are scheming to fill the vastness of the town pond with garbage and erect a veterans' memorial on top.


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Of course [Cheever] wants too much. He wants wisdom AND beauty, God AND sex. Don't we all? Didn't Chekhov?"

OH, WHAT A PARADISE IT SEEMS

by Cheever, John

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Book description: New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1982 [9], 3-99, [4] p. ; 22 cm. Bound in grey cloth, with dust jacket. A hint of offsetting to pastedowns and barely discernible foxing. VG+ in dustjacket with minimal edge wear and one short tear to base of spine.. First Edition. Cloth.

  • Bookseller: A Scholar's Tale Booksellers US (US)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 2637
  • Format/binding: Hardcover
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 0394513347
  • ISBN 13: 9780394513348
  • Publisher: Knopf : Distributed by Random House
  • Place: New York
  • Date published: 1982
  • Pages: 99

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