John Cheever
'I asked my son, who was then 19, if he would mind me dedicating the book to him, a book about drug addiction, incarceration, homosexuality and fratricide. He said " Not at all" and I was very pleased.'
JOHN CHEEVER'S latest book, Falconer, was a huge popular and critical success in the USA - it's a brilliant comic account of a university professor's experiences in prison. At his home near New York, Cheever talks to Robert Robinson about Falconer, about his own experience of confinement on a cure for his alcoholism, and about his life and writing; One doesn't write a novel saying this is about life and rebirth or about love and death. Novels are about men and women and children and dogs.'
Film cameraman EUGENE CAR
Film editor CHRIS LOVETT
Producer WILL WYATT