Benjamin Cheever, Author . Bloomsbury $23.95 (278p) ISBN 978-1-58234-122-4
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THE GOOD NANNY
Benjamin Cheever
. Bloomsbury
, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 1-58234-12
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Benjamin Cheever, Author . Rodale $25.95 (244p) ISBN 978-1-59486-228-1
Cheever (The Plagiarist
) makes an erratic dash through his lifetime of marathon running while offering facts about the sport throughout history. Having discovered running in 1977, at age 28, while working at Reader's Digest
, and stuck in an...
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Benjamin Cheever, Author Crown Publishers $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-609-60005-4
Merrily narrated in academic editor-speak, journal entries and letters, Cheever's latest satire (after The Plagiarist and The Partisan) opens in 1988 with Noel Hammersmith's description of his prison interview with Barbara Walters. Apotheosized to...
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Benjamin Cheever, Author Atheneum Books $20 (322p) ISBN 978-0-689-12153-1
Wit and pathos, so finely meshed they become inseparable, buoy the main events in this achingly funny first novel from the editor of his father's The Letters of John Cheever. Arthur Prentice, the only child of famous writer Icarus Prentice, wants...
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Benjamin Cheever, Author Atheneum Books $21 (261p) ISBN 978-0-689-12174-6
When not taking classifieds for a weekly advertising giveaway, 20-year-old Nelson Collingwood is looking for love in this bantering tale of fatherhood, deceit and identity. Nelson grew up never feeling fully accepted by his adoptive father, Jonas...
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Benjamin Cheever, Author, Heever, Author Scribner Book Company $19.5 (336p) ISBN 978-0-02-018925-1
Cheever's buoyant and touching debut is about an aspiring magazine editor with marital troubles who is the son of a much celebrated American writer. (Jan.)
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Benjamin Cheever, Author, Karen Rinaldi, Editor . Bloomsbury $25.95 (395p) ISBN 978-1-58234-158-3
Where Barbara Ehrenreich surveyed the low-wage workplace with righteous indignation in Nickel and Dimed, novelist Cheever (Famous After Death) recounts his entry-level service jobs with rueful humor. His economic security (thanks to his wife) allows
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Aimee Bender, Author, Benjamin Cheever, Author, Sebastian Junger, Author . Random $22.95 (242p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6264-5
Instead of whodunit, this anthology of 12 anonymously penned short stories asks "who wrote it?" Parent gathers tales by well-known authors (including Aimee Bender, Michael Connelly, Sebastian Junger, Elizabeth McCracken, Anna Quindlen, Alice
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