Drinking in America: Our Secret History
Bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American character from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
Biography
E.E. Cummings. A Life
"She's put together a smart and readable portrait of this artist as a seemingly perpetual young man whose adult years were filled with personal despair, jumbled politics, a mix of anti-Communism, polite anti-Semitism and American self-actualization as well as family heartbreak." --Alan Cheuse on NPR
Literary History
Addiction
Novels
The Cage
Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Paperback: Random House, 1983.
A Handsome Man
Simon & Schuster, 1981. Paperback: Ballantine Group: 1982.
Memoir
Home Before Dark
A poignant memoir of a man driven by boundless genius and ambition.
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