Falconer Prison

Drug addict Professor Ezekiel Farragut is sentenced to ten years in prison for fratricide. Amidst his wife's torturous visits, the brutal monotony of prison life, and the heavy burden of memory, he struggles to preserve his humanity and atone.

In Falconer Prison, Cheever moves away from the suburbs that occupy an important place in his literature. But behind bars, he writes much more than a prison novel. In Farragut's story, the author confronts his own fears, his own darkness; and tells of freedom, and a person's effort to be free within his own mind and body. Considered by many to be Cheever's masterpiece and one of the most written about, Falconer's Prison is a mesmerizing parable about the human condition.

“Falconer's Prison is a profound examination of the American soul—a masterpiece.”

- AM Homes -

“One of the most important novels of our time.”

- The New York Times -

“John Cheever is a magical realist, and in his sparkling stories, in such incomparable novels as Bullet Park and Falconer's Prison, his style is as colorful and original as that of all the other pioneering writers of postwar American literature.”

- Philip Roth -

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Pulp Type : 2. Dough

Number of Pages : 192

Size : 12.5 X 19.5

Year of First Printing : 2018

Number of Printings : 1st Edition