Bailey, Blake

Complete novels by John Cheever ( Book )
3 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 939 libraries worldwide

Cheever a life by Blake Bailey ( Book )
15 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 355 libraries worldwide
A portrait of the life of John Cheever reveals a soul in conflict, describing his life as a high-school dropout, alcoholic, secret bisexual, and a man who concealed his deeply-rooted anxieties while becoming one of the most iconic literary figures of our time.

A tragic honesty : the life and work of Richard Yates by Blake Bailey ( Book )
8 editions published between 2003 and 2006 in English and held by 101 libraries worldwide
Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always exposed readers to the unsettling hypocrisies of our modern age. Classic novels such as Revolutionary Road and The Easter Parade are incomparable chronicles of the quiet and not-so-quiet desperation of the American middle-class. Lonely housewives, addled businessmen, desperate career-girls and fearful boys and soldiers, Yates's America was a panorama of high living, self-doubt and self-deception. And in the tradition of other great realistic writers of his time (Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Cheever and Updike), Yates's fictional world mirrored his own. A manic-depressive alcoholic and unapologetic gentleman, his life was a hornets' nest of childhood ghosts, the horrors of war, money woes, and ebullient cocktailed evenings in New York, Hollywood, and the Riviera. [This volume] is [an] evocation of a man who in many ways embodied the struggles of the Great American Writer in the latter half of the twentieth century. Fame and reward followed by heartbreak and obscurity, Richard Yates here stands for what the writer must sacrifice for his craft, the devil's bargain of artistry for happiness, praise for sanity.-Dust jacket.

Collected stories and other writings by John Cheever ( Book )
2 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 34 libraries worldwide

Complete novels : the wapshot chronicle ; The wapshot scandal ; Bullet park ; Falconer ; Oh what a paradise it seems by John Cheever ( Book )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 15 libraries worldwide

Head of the family ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1996 and 2005 in English and held by 11 libraries worldwide
Something's twisted in Nob Hollow. In the midst of a torrid affair with a biker's wife (Loretta), Lance discovers that the tiny town's weirdest residents, the Stackpool family, have been doing some hideous human experiments in the bowels of their basement. Lance blackmails Myron Stackpool (the "Head of the family") and his psychically controlled siblings into murdering Loretta's husband, but Lance soon finds that he's way in over his head.

Lurking fear ( Visual )
2 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide
A horrifying tale of grotesque undead creatures terrorizing a storm-swept town, while ghoulish men seek a fortune buried inside a decomposing corpse.

A tragic honesty the life and work of Richard Yates by Blake Bailey ( Book )
2 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide

Cabeza de familia = Head of the family ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1999 and 2005 in Spanish and Multiple languages and held by 1 library worldwide

El Ojo Asesino ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2003 in Spanish and held by 1 library worldwide
In an attempt to prove his theory that the human eye is the gateway to another dimension, an ophthalmologist performs his final experiment on an unwitting homeless subject. All other attempts before have failed, but this time something begins to stir in one of the still eye sockets of the victim. An invincible being of pure light energy becomes driven by the hunger of knowledge - and young women.