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A Handsome Man

Publicist Hannah Bart goes to Ireland with her older lover, Sam Noble, to meet his estranged son, Travis, and finds herself in competition with the young man for his father's love.

Selected Works

Literary History
Louisa May Alcott A Personal Biography
Lively and astute!
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalism--the story behind the scenes.
Addiction
Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction
"A short, steamy read."
--New York Post
Biography
My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous
"As a biography of one of the most humane and beneficial Americans who ever lived, it is a national treasure."
--Kurt Vonnegut
Memoir
As Good As I Could Be
Raising wonderful children in a difficult world
Home Before Dark
A poignant memoir of a man driven by boundless genius and ambition.
Note Found in a Bottle
"Engrossing and remarkably devoid of self-flagellation."
--Seattle Weekly
Treetops
"Ms. Cheever's. . . coolly intelligent perspective. . . provides a clear, hard-edged picture of the snobbery, sexism, anti-Semitism adultery, alcoholism, and emotional dishonesty that were part and parcel of those swimming pools and tennis courts."
--Wall Street Journal
Novels
Elizabeth Cole
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1989
Doctors and Women
Clarkson N. Potter, 1987
The Cage
Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Paperback: Random House, 1983.
A Handsome Man
Simon & Schuster, 1981. Paperback: Ballantine Group: 1982.
Looking for Work
Simon & Schuster, 1980. Paperback: Fawcett, 1982.