Cheever

[chee-ver]

noun

1. John, 1912–82, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

Cheever

/ ˈtʃiːvə /

noun

1. John. 1912–82, US novelist and short-story writer. His novels include The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) and Bullet Park (1969)

Example Sentences

Years later, Susan Cheever, writing in The Times, called it “a scream of marital rage.”

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“Being embraced and sustained by the light-green water,” Cheever writes, “seemed not as much a pleasure as the resumption of a natural condition.”

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Unaccountably, the actress is given the name Julia Cheever, a herring so far past red it’s bleeding.

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Theoretically, as in John Cheever’s 1964 short story “The Swimmer,” renters might attempt to swim across a county, or side stroke through several states.

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John Cheever took the train in, but his work was mostly about those bedroom communities.

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