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Years later, Susan Cheever, writing in The Times, called it “a scream of marital rage.”

“Being embraced and sustained by the light-green water,” Cheever writes, “seemed not as much a pleasure as the resumption of a natural condition.”

Unaccountably, the actress is given the name Julia Cheever, a herring so far past red it’s bleeding.

Theoretically, as in John Cheever’s 1964 short story “The Swimmer,” renters might attempt to swim across a county, or side stroke through several states.

John Cheever took the train in, but his work was mostly about those bedroom communities.