Bullet Park : a novel

Resource Information

The work Bullet Park : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Bullet Park : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

John Cheever

Creator

• Cheever, John

Subject

• Domestic fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Families
• Families -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Family -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• New York (State) -- New York
• Violence
• Violence -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
• Violence -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Welcome to Bullet Park, a township in which even the most buttoned-down gentry sometimes manage to terrify themselves simply by looking in the mirror. In these exemplary environs John Cheever traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and Paul Hammer, a bastard named after a common household tool, who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park with one objective -- to murder Nailles's son. Here is the lyrical and mordantly funny hymn to the American suburb -- and to all the dubious normalcy it represents -- delivered with unparalleled artistry and assurance

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.5/2

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3505.H6428

LC item number

B8

Literary form

fiction