RaveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)A testament of struggle. The force of the emotions held in for so long buckles the prose and pushes up unanswerable questions ... When All the Men Wore Hats is at times jagged and uncomfortable; digesting such a father is no easy task. But by reading the life through the stories and the stories through the life, she has found a way to honour both her truth and his art, and to write John Cheever in the round: a vulnerable, maddening, devious, brilliant, loving, damaged man.
