Falconer by John Cheever [1978 PAPERBACK]

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [1978] BALLANTINE BOOKS

8th printing from 1982.  Excellent reading copy,  unread w/ some wear and a spot of damage to corner of corner. 

Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer 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. Only John 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.