Cheever, John

Bullet Park : a novel / by John Cheever. - First edition. - 245 pages ; 22 cm

"Welcome to Bullet Park, a township in which even the most buttoned-down gentry sometimes manage to terrify themselves simply by looking in the mirror. In these exemplary environs John Cheever traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and Paul Hammer, a bastard named after a common household tool, who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park with one objective -- to murder Nailles's son. Here is the lyrical and mordantly funny hymn to the American suburb -- and to all the dubious normalcy it represents ... "--From Amazon.com.

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Violence--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
Families--New York (State)--New York--Fiction


Domestic fiction
Fiction

PS3505.H6428 / B8 1969