A review by lavina_l
Bullet Park by John Cheever

4.0

The short story is absolutely Cheever's strength, but this was still so entertaining and fun to read (I read more than half the book in one sitting). It's nice to get slightly more fleshed-out characters in the forms of Eliot Nailles and his son, Tony. Cheever gets right to the bone of people — their sentimentality and secrets and hopes and terribly mundane and hilarious thoughts — and somehow manages, wonderfully, to be both disdainful and sympathetic of them at the same time.