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A probing and insightful look, from a feminist standpoint, of the life and times of forty-five-year-old Linda Green, an apparently typical suburban wife and mother, shows how her story reflects and informs the story of her generation. Drinking in America: Our Secret History Bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history.

This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American character from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

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A Life. Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction "In a provocative and deeply personal look at the least acknowledged of all addictions, Cheever examines the ways in which sexually obsessed people confuse lust with love and the damage they do to themselves and those around them as they distort affection and desire with abuse and deception. A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation A probing and insightful look, from a feminist standpoint, of the life and times of forty-five-year-old Linda Green, an apparently typical suburban wife and mother, shows how her story reflects and informs the story of her generation.

American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau Even the most devoted readers of nineteenth-century American literature often assume that the men and women behind the masterpieces were as dull and staid as the era's static daguerreotypes. Susan Cheever's latest work, however, brings new life to the well-known literary personages who produced such cherished works as The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Walden, and Little Women.

Rendering in full color the tumultuous, often scandalous lives of these volatile and vulnerable geniuses, Cheever's dynamic narrative reminds us that, while these literary heroes now seem secure of their spots in the canon, they were once considered avant-garde, bohemian types, at odds with the establishment. My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous In this definitive and groundbreaking biography, acclaimed author Susan Cheever offers a remarkably human portrait of a man whose life and work both influenced and saved the lives of millions of people.

Drawing from personal letters, diaries, AA archives, interviews -- and Cheever's own experiences with alcoholism -- My Name Is Bill is the first fully documented, deeply felt account of Bill Wilson and Alcoholics Anonymous. As Good As I Could Be "Cheever's honest, realistic approach to the difficulties of parenting is refreshing, as is her optimistic belief that people can be good parents despite their own unhappy childhoods.

Home Before Dark In Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses previously unpublished letters, journals, and her own precious memories to create a candid and insightful tribute to her father. While producing some of the most beloved and celebrated American literature of this century, John Cheever wrestled with personal demons that deeply affected his family life as well as his career.

In this poignant memoir of a man driven by boundless genius and ambition, Susan Cheever writes with heartwrenching honesty of family life with the father, the writer, and the remarkable man she loved. Note Found in a Bottle "A memoir that floats like a sad song, with its themes the effervescence of champagne and the flatness of the morning after A poignant and fortright tale of a rugged journey by an extraordinarily gifted writer.