Falconer is a 1977

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 novel by American

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 short-story writer and novelist John Cheever

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. It tells the story of Ezekiel Farragut, a university professor and drug addict who is serving time in Falconer State Prison

Prison

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 for the murder of his brother

Fratricide

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. Farragut struggles to retain his humanity in the prison environment, and begins an affair with a fellow prisoner.

Time

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 magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

Adaptations

In 2009, Audible.com

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produced an audio version of Falconer, narrated by Jay Snyder, as part of its Modern Vanguard line of audiobooks.