Still, rejoice

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

-- John Cheever

Of course, plenty went wrong in the life of the great short-story writer and novelist Cheever, who grew up on Boston's South Shore. But he almost always found reasons for hope and redemption. The last line of his novel Falconer is "Rejoice''.

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