TY - BOOK AU - Cheever,John TI - Bullet Park: a novel AV - PS3505.H6428 B8 1969 PY - 1969/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Violence KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Fiction KW - Families KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft N2 - "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 ER -