One of this man's novels describes a boy named Tony Nailles, who refuses to get out of bed and is eventually kidnapped by his neighbor, Paul Hammer, who plans to kill him in a
One of this man's novels describes a boy named Tony Nailles, who refuses to get out of bed and is eventually kidnapped by his neighbor, Paul Hammer, who plans to kill him in a church. One of this man's short stories is about a rakish man named Blake, who is held hostage on a train by a slightly deranged former lover, Miss Dent. Besides Bullet Park and "The Five-Forty-Eight," this man wrote a story which climaxes when the protagonist cries after being unable to spot the constellations of midsummer and is further horrified when he discovers his own home to be empty. This man's first novel describes life in St. Botolph's, Massachusetts and features such characters as Cousin Honora. FTP, name this author who wrote about Neddy Merill in the story "The Swimmer" and about Leander, Moses, and Coverly, the titular family in his The Wapshot Chronicle.
One of this man's novels describes a boy named Tony Nailles, who refuses to get out of bed and is eventually kidnapped by his neighbor, Paul Hammer, who plans to kill him in a church.
John {Cheever}