Falconer

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 backwards 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.