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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionseBook editionsThe Stories of John Cheeverby John Cheever
AwardsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award
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"I finished ['The Swimmer'] remarkably satisfied, but piqued, and randomly began to consume the stories one after another. This collection contains pieces spanning more than thirty years of Cheever's career. He writes old-fashioned stories with dateless appeal covering themes of water, light, morality, industry and failure, romantic love and sadness." Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Pulitzer Prize When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has become a classic. Vintage Books is proud to reintroduce this magnificent collection. Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle 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," Cheever tells us everything we need to know about "the pain and sweetness of life." Review:"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 Review:"Not merely the publishing event of the 'season' but a grand occasion in English literature." The New York Times Review:"One of the most important bodies of work in contemporary letters." Time Review:"The Stories of John Cheever is master storytelling." Los Angeles Times Review:"John Cheever is a magnificent storyteller and this is a powerful and dazzling book." The New Republic Review:"The Stories of John Cheever is a book that immediately takes its place on the rather small shelf that houses the classics of American literature, a book that moves Cheever beyond the bestseller lists and into the company of Hawthorne and Fitzgerald, Melville and Faulkner, Crane and James. I think it safe to say that this is a great book." The Miami Herald About the AuthorShortly before his death in 1982, John Cheever was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Table of ContentsPreface 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 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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