..for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho.
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John Cheever was a 20th-century American novelist and short story writer. John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". Read more on Wikipedia →