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Bullet Park is a 1969 novel by American Novelist John Cheever about an earnest yet pensive father Eliot Nailles and his troubled son Tony, and their predestined fate with a psychotic man Hammer, who moves to Bullet Park to sacrifice one of them.
it appears that Bullet Park and its many pleasures come from the darkest spot, the perigee of the author’s orbits. Bullet Park is the only work by John Cheever that I know of that is really like this, so riven as to be painful to read.
Bullet Park. Suburban area of stately homes, manicured lawns interrupted by swimming pools, and the buzz of chain saws and lawn tractors. At the heart of the town is the train station where the...
From “a master American storyteller” (TIME), Bullet Park traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and the man who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park with one objective—to murder Nailles’s son.
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Complete summary of John Cheever's Bullet Park. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Bullet Park.
April 24, 1969. You Wouldn’t Believe It. A review of Bullet Park by John Cheever. There are people who believe that when writers pass middle age their imaginative power—like their sexual...
Bullet Park by John Cheever - The 8243rd greatest book of all time. The novel is a darkly satirical portrayal of suburban life in mid-20th century America, focusing on two families living in the affluent community of Bullet Park.
