Falconer

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stunning and brutally powerful one of the most important novels of our time (The New York Times) tells the story of a man named Farragut his crime and punishment and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him back into childhood. . In a nightmarish prison out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction. Only Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony unforced eloquence and exhilarating humor that make Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.