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Susan Cheever
In this companion volume to Home Before Dark , Susan Cheever once again gives an insider’s glimpse into her famous family, whose secrets and eccentricity are only paralleled by their…
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One of the Best Books of the Year: The Economist, San Francisco Chronicle
Cummings, in his radical experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax, created a new kind of poetic…
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Cheever presents an intimate, provocative meditation on love, sex, and addiction; explores the boundaries between passion and addiction, desire and need; and raises important questions about how people love and…
Cheever looks back with clear-eyed candor on a way of life that brought her perilously close to the edge in a book about recovery that is both wrenching and ultimately…
Susan Cheever uses previously unpublished letters, journals, and her own precious memories to create an insightful and candid tribute to her father, John Cheever.
The definitive biography of Bill Wilson, a cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, is drawn from exclusive access to his personal letters and diaries, documents in the organization’s archives, and hundreds of…
Celebrated author Susan Cheever’s comprehensive and definitive biography sheds new light on the life and work of Louisa May Alcott, whose Little Women and other novels have inspired generations of…
Now in paperback, a fascinating look at our nation’s history of drinking and its effects on the American character by bestselling author Susan Cheever.
Between 1840 and 1868, Concord, Massachusetts, was home to such writers as Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. In this fascinating history…
John Irving
In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, inlcuding The Pension Grillparzer, previously only…
Louisa May Alcott
Includes notes, study guide questions, and an introduction by Susan Cheever.
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Susan Cheever’s comprehensive and definitive biography sheds new light on of life of Louisa May Alcott, whose work has inspired generations of w
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E. E. Cummings
Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives-The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
Is addiction a disease, a sin, a sign of hypersensitivity, a personal failing, or a unique resource for the creative mind? However it is defined, addiction can have devastating consequences…
