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In a nightmarish prison a convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man. Out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction.
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Falconer is set in a nightmarish prison where a convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man.
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In a nightmarish prison a convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man. Out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction.
Falconer ANNOTATION
In a nightmarish prison a convict named Farragut--a professor, drug addict, and a fratricide--struggles to remain a man. "One of the most important novels of our time . . . Read it and be ennobled."--Los Angeles Times.
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In a nightmarish prison a convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man. Out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction.
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Charles McGrath
....Falconer seems to be a conventional novel of crime, punishment and redemption. -- The New York Times Books of the Century
John Gardner - Saturday Review
A masterpieceﾽan extraordinary work of art.
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Falconer is splendid. It is rough, it is elegant, it is pure. It is also indispensable, if you earnestly desire to know what is happening to the human soul in the U.S.A.
— Saul Bellow
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