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The Stories of John Cheever

By John Cheever

By John Cheever

By John Cheever

By John Cheever

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Paperback $20.00

May 16, 2000 | ISBN 9780375724428

Ebook $12.99

Apr 20, 2011 | ISBN 9780307743985

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    About The Stories of John Cheever

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.”

    From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill” and “The Swimmer,” these are tales that have helped define the form. Featuring a preface by the Pulizter Prize-winning author, The Stories of John Cheever brings together some of the finest short stories ever written. 

    “Cheever’s crowning achievement is the ability to be simultaneously generous and cynical, to see that the absurd and the profound can reside in the same moment, and to acknowledge both at the detriment of neither.” —The Guardian

    About The Stories of John Cheever

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.”

    From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill” and “The Swimmer,” these are tales that have helped define the form. Featuring a preface by the Pulizter Prize-winning author, The Stories of John Cheever brings together some of the finest short stories ever written. 

    “Cheever’s crowning achievement is the ability to be simultaneously generous and cynical, to see that the absurd and the profound can reside in the same moment, and to acknowledge both at the detriment of neither.” —The Guardian

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    About John Cheever

    John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal… More about John Cheever

    About John Cheever

    John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal… More about John Cheever

    Product Details

    Category: Short Stories | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $20.00
    Published by Vintage
    May 16, 2000 | 704 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375724428

    Category: Short Stories | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 20, 2011 | 704 Pages | ISBN 9780307743985

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    Praise

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

    “Profound and daring…. Some of the most wonderful stories any American has written.” —The Boston Globe

    “John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice, in his luminous short stories … is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature.” —Philip Roth

    “As stories go, as compellingly readable narratives of a certain sort of people in a certain time and place—our time and place—John Cheever’s stories are, simply, the best.” —The Washington Post

    “A grand occasion in English literature.” —The New York Times

    “Cheever’s crowning achievement is the ability to be simultaneously generous and cynical, to see that the absurd and the profound can reside in the same moment, and to acknowledge both at the detriment of neither.” —The Guardian

    Awards

    National Book Awards WINNER 1979

    National Book Critics Circle Awards WINNER 1978

    Pulitzer Prize WINNER 1979

    Table Of Contents

    Preface

    Goodbye, My Brother
    The Common Day
    The Enormous Radio
    O City of Broken Dreams
    The Hartleys
    The Sutton Place Story
    Torch Song
    The Pot of Gold
    Clancy in the Tower of Babel
    Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor
    The Season of Divorce
    The Chaste Clarissa
    The Cure
    The Children
    The Sorrows of Gin
    O Youth and Beauty!
    The Day the Pig Fell into the Well
    The Five-Forty-Eight
    Just One More Time
    The Housebreaker of Shady Hill
    The Bus to St. James’s
    The Trouble of Marcie Flint
    The Bella Lingua
    The Wrysons
    The Country Husband
    The Duchess
    The Scarlet Moving Van
    Just Tell Me Who It Was
    Brimmer
    The Golden Age
    The Lowboy
    The Music Teacher
    A Woman Without a Country
    The Death of Justina
    Clementina
    Boy in Rome
    A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear
    The Chimera
    The Seaside Houses
    The Angel of the Bridge
    The Brigadier and the Gold Widow
    A Vision of the World
    Reunion
    An Educated American Woman
    Metamorphoses
    Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
    Montraldo
    The Ocean
    Marito in Città
    The Geometry of Love
    The Swimmer
    The World of Apples
    Another Story
    Percy
    The Fourth Alarm
    Artemis, the Honest Well Digger
    Three Stories
    The Jewel of the Cabots

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