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In this compelling companion volume to her acclaimed memoir "Home Before Dark, " Susan Cheever once again gives readers a revealing look into her famous family, whose secrets and eccentricities parallel their genius and successes. Set against the backdrop of Treetops, the New Hampshire family retreat where the Cheevers still summer, and going back several generations, this powerful remembrance focuses on Susan Cheever's mother's family, and includes portraits of her great-grandfather, Thomas Watson, who invented the telephone with Alexander Graham Bell, and her grandfather Milton Winternitz, a brilliant doctor who built Yale Medical School. And of course there is her beloved and talented father John Cheever, the accomplished author who became one of the most well-known writers of the century, often using his family as material. Perhaps most riveting about Susan Cheever's second biographical masterpiece is its exploration of the lives of the Cheever women. At once a unique family portrait and the tale of every family, "Treetops" draws us effortlessly into a fascinating yet endearingly familiar world.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Treetops
• Author: Susan Cheever
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242
• EAN: 9780671028510
• ISBN: 0671028510
• ID: 04633519
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Weight: 312 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1999

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