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Original Title:	The Stories of John Cheever
ISBN:	0375724427 (ISBN13: 9780375724428)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1979), National Book Award for Fiction (Paperback) (1981), National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1978), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1979)

The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever

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Title	:	The Stories of John Cheever
Author	:	John Cheever
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 693 pages
Published	:	May 16th 2000 by Vintage International (first published 1978)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. Literature

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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." Goodbye, my brother -- The common day -- The enormous radio -- O city of broken dreams -- The Hartleys -- The Sutton Place story -- The summer farmer -- 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 superintendent -- 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 worm in the apple -- 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 golf 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 jewels of the Cabots.

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John Cheever is a brilliant raconteur one of my most favourite. He excellently knows the stuff our lives are made of.Although this entire anthology is a gold mine, The Swimmer and The Day the Pig Fell into the Well seems to be my preferred nuggets.This is not an imitation, she thought, this is not the product of custom, this is the unique place, the unique air, where my children have spent the best of themselves. The realization that none of them had done well made her sink back in her chair.



In the same vein as Updike and precursor to the "dirty-realism" of Carver, Cheever betrays our expectations by presenting a class of people that on the surface of things have life together. Through unpretentious plots and simple syntax, he stuns his readers by revealing catastrophic and devastating results in otherwise innocuous scenarios. It is almost a form of voyeurism the way he reveals the reality behind our neighbors closed doors. A phenomenal author and unique, revealing perception of

I do not usually write a review of a book that I have not finished reading, so this is an exception. The Stories of John Cheever is a fine vintage collection of 61 stories. It won the Putlizer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979. The paperback edition also garnered a National Book Award in 1981. The stories depicted life in suburbia, typically set in fictional Shady Hill. Across this luminous collection of stories, Cheever distilled the commonalities shared by

Try reading John Cheever all summer and working at a country club. That'll mess with you.

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.)As a general rule, it can be said that the newer an artistic movement, the more difficult it is to fully understand it, because of a lack of both historical distance and "how it really happened" stories regarding important turning points; given this, then, I suppose it's safe to call Postmodernism,

The Stories of John CheeverJohn Cheever won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer for this collection in 1979. He died in 1982 at the age of seventy. Cheevers stories are full of soul searching and the polarities that exist in both our mind and our outward behaviors. Some of his symbolism, I am certain, goes over my head but his stories are usually easy to follow. Both his writing style and characters are usually tempered there are only a few moments of over the top drama. Sometimes his