Falconer

About the Author

During a writing career spanning forty years, John Cheever won a National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and an American Book Award. John Cheever among his eleven books was perhaps best known for his short stories dealing with upper middle class suburban life.

Falconer is set in a nightmarish prison where a convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man. Out of Farragut’s suffering and astonishing salvation, John Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction.

Saul Bellow wrote, "Farragut is splendid. It is rough, it is elegant, it is pure. It is also indispensable, if you earnestly desire to know what is happening to the human soul in the U.S.A. "

Falconer continues twenty-five years after its initial publication to be the best-selling of John Cheever's novels.