Falconer

7 hrs. 23 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author John Cheever

Narrator Tatyana Telegina

Description

John Cheever (1912–1982) is a classic of 20th-century American literature. The novel “Falconer,” first published in 1975, is a book about the travels of the human soul, full of doubts and fears, pride and humility, anger and mercy. The novel’s hero, Ezekiel Farragut, is sentenced to prison for killing his brother. Once inside a corrective colony, he is forced to search for within himself those moral qualities that would allow him to survive in this crude, cruel world. Cheever writes about suffering and redemption, about faith in a marvelous resurrection of the soul, about a new birth of a person doomed to die.