"It really looks like paradise" was the last novel, published in 1982 and translated into French in 2009 , the American novelist and short story John Cheever.
One day an old man named Lemuel Sears back in the village of Janice to skate on the pond Beasley. Then he realizes that it is now held by a discharge powerful criminal organization. Then he launched legal proceedings to stop this pollution source, he falls madly in love with Renee, a realtor who has the curious habit of frequenting churches for reasons obscure and fun to turn the old man ass on the pretext that he knows nothing about women.
Meanwhile, two couples, Salazzo and Logan, embark on a neighbor dispute.
Beasley's Pond is for Sears a little corner of paradise that is ready to defend. If the story opens with the discovery of the old man, the author departs readily subject to dwell on the complicated relationship qu'entretiennent Sears and Renee and then forking over disputes between two parents, of first for a dead dog story, a carillon and then finally on the tail of a fish at a checkout 10 items.
If the author likes to walk the reader a portrait to another, this is obviously no coincidence since each protagonist wants involved in one way or another in the matter Sears occupies.
This post will be short as much as to say it to go, I'm absolutely unable to get into this novel. If there is ultimately links between the different characters, the feeling of being on the rooster to the donkey does not, however, left me, I found the characters unconvincing and inconsistent, too many digressions (the part of fishing between Sears and the elevator boy gay, SIGNED?) and the story itself made me die of boredom. The only thing I ever so little attention is the point of view (still small) of the author, expressed through the character of Sears, about the importance of ecology and preservation of nature.
" Why celebrate a landfill, why try to describe such an aberration? There lay scraps of a society inclined to nomadism, but who had renounced his taste for objects that are ports. Most people who wander around the world develop a culture of tents and saddles, but that was gifted by nomads with a passion for bedsteads gigantic and enormous refrigerators.
There was a conflict between mobility - the wandering-and the love of permanence that had led to chaos in the lake of Beasley. "p.20
THANK
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for giving me this book! 
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