abstract:Bullet Park is a 1969 novel by American Novelist John Cheever about an earnest yet pensive father Eliot Nailles and his troubled son Tony, and their predestined fate with a psychotic man Hammer, who moves to Bullet Park to sacrifice one of them. The book deals with the failure of the American dream, spoken in a fable-like tone, in similar vein with Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road and The Great Gatsby.
One sunny day the previous July, a White House lawyer -- a childhood friend of the president's -- had left work early, driven out to a park by the Potomac River and put a bullet through his mouth.