“I felt that he was a captive of financial and sentimental commitments, like every other man I know, and that he was no more free to fall in love with a strange woman he saw on a street corner than he was to take a walking trip through French Guiana or to recommence his life in Chicago under an assumed name.”

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Falconer

1977

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The Wapshot Scandal

1964

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The Wapshot Chronicle

1957

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2009

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The letters of John Cheever

1988

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