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John Cheever

  1. The Journals of John Cheever John Cheever ““A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey’s gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”” John Cheever on...

    The Journals of John Cheever

    John Cheever

    “A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey’s gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”

    John Cheever on loneliness and how it feeds the creative restlessness of youth: