The Stories of John Cheever

✍ Scribed by Cheever, John

• Book ID: 107190409
• Publisher: Vintage
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 533 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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"These stories," writes Cheever in the preface to this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of stories, "seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationary store, and when almost everybody wore a hat. Here is the last of that generation of chain smokers who woke the world in the morning with their coughing, who used to get stoned at cocktail parties and perform obsolete dance steps like 'the Cleveland Chicken,' set sail for Europe on ships, who were truly nostalgic for love and happiness, and whose gods were as ancient as yours and mine, whoever you are."

From Wikipedia

The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The Swimmer." It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979 - which makes it the only work of fiction, along with Rabbit Is Rich, to have achieved this literary triple-crown; the paperback version won the American Book Award for Fiction in 1981. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon

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