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The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780375724428 |
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Awards
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award
Powells.com Staff Pick
"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." Ann Ellenbecker, Powells.com (read the entire Powells.com review)
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
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. <BR>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 Author
Shortly before his death in 1982, John Cheever was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780375724428
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books USA
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Social life and customs
- Subject:
- United states
- Subject:
- Short Stories (single author)
- Subject:
- Short stories
- Copyright:
- 2000
- Edition Description:
- Vintage Intl
- Series Volume:
- new ser., no. 51 =
- Publication Date:
- May 2000
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 704
- Dimensions:
- 7.98x5.25x1.32 in. 1.09 lbs.
