The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
-- John Cheever
   
John Cheever   Name:
John Cheever
Type:
Writer
Nationality:
American
Birth:
May 27, 1912
Death:
June 18, 1982
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