Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey

Author:Blake Bailey
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Cheever, 20th century, General, Literary, American - 20th century, American, Literary Criticism, Authors, Biography & Autobiography, John, Biography
ISBN: 9781400043941
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2009-04-15T20:21:39+00:00

In her dotage the dog had become all the more loving toward her master. She lay at his side and made comforting wheezing noises while he brooded in his wing chair, and when it came time for bed, he'd push and coax the whimpering, arthritic beast up the stairs so that neither of them would have to sleep alone. One day she fell in the snow and couldn't get up again, and Cheever carried her home and presently called the vet to put her down. “She was a wonderful companion and I loved her dearly but I shed very few tears,” he wrote Litvinov. “Fred cried for about an hour. We had her for fifteen years and she led a very active and useful life …”

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