A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey’s gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
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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 →