This novel is about a prison called “Falconer” and not about a falconer. So it’s not about a boy and his hawk, which I thought was possible, or a metaphor for a loss of center or control in the world ala an allusion to “The Second Coming” by Yeats, which I also thought. Nor does it remind me much of John Cheever’s short fiction, of which I have read a fair amount. Also, I had a student years ago who really liked a John Cheever […]