John Cheever’s Bullet Park Captures It All The suburbs originated as a mode of escape—from the grit and grime of the city, its voracious greed and crime, its dirty mix of ethnics and roustabouts—so that a clean front of respectability could welcome the refugees and offer them the safety they were perceived to have lost More

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