# The Journals

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- Book: [The Journals](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-cheever/the-journals) ([The Journals.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-cheever/the-journals.md))
- Authors: [John Cheever](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-cheever)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9952-953-8
- Pages: 560
- Published: 2009-12-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he hated himself for his drinking, but for much of his life was dependent upon it; he was a great writer, but one whose acute levels of perception often crippled him as a person. His journals are candid, beautiful and often startling.