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David Raney, « What We Keep: Time and Balance in the Brother Stories of John Cheever », Journal of the Short Story in English, ID : 10670/1.00wpp7
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Tolstoy famously maintained in Anna Karenina that "All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" (1). John Cheever, born two years after the Russian master died, spent much of his literary career examining both sorts, and the forces that drive wedges between family members or bind them together. Arlin Meyer has singled out as one of Cheever's consistent subjects "the family and the intricate web of emotional and moral concerns which compose it" (23-4). Among t...