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Oh What a Paradise It Seems is a 1982 novella by John Cheever. It is Cheever's last work of fiction, published shortly before his death from cancer.
Jan 1, 2001 · Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever's final novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man, Lemuel Sears, who still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever’s final novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man, Lemuel Sears, who still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes.
Aug 21, 2021 · English. 99 pages ; 22 cm. The story of an old man's search for love is told through a constellation of events: the struggle to save a pond from pollution, the murder of a gallant scientist, and an exquisite but fleeting affair with the beautiful woman he sees in a bank line. Access-restricted-item.
Jan 15, 1992 · Published just a month before the author's tragic death from cancer, John Cheever's 'Oh What a Paradise It Seems' is a short, sharp novella which crystalised the author's unique, startling and wonderfully accurate depictions of individual character, and of suburban America.
In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters involved in organised crime.
John Cheever. Knopf, 1982 - Fiction - 99 pages. "John Cheever's last novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man, Lemuel Sears,...
