The Stories of John Cheever by Cheever, John

The Stories of John Cheever (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375724428)

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The Stories of John Cheever by Cheever, John

The Stories of John Cheever

$20.00
The Stories of John Cheever by Cheever, John

The Stories of John Cheever

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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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

Author: John Cheever
ISBN-10: 0375724427
ISBN-13: 9780375724428
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/16/2000
Pages: 704
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.25w x 1.32d

Review Citation(s):
Newsweek 03/09/2009 pg. 56
By John Cheever
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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 for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 The Stories of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

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