Book : The Stories Of John Cheever - John Cheever

-Titulo Original : The Stories Of John Cheever

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Vintage

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 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 author, The Stories of John Cheever brings together some of the finest short stories ever written. Review Profound and daring. . . . Some of the most wonderful stories any American has written. -The Boston GlobeJohn Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice, in his luminous short stories . . . is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature. -Philip RothAs 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 PostA grand occasion in English literature. -The New York TimesCheever’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 From the Inside Flap 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. From the Back Cover 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. 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. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. “The Enormous Radio”Jim and Irene Westcott were the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and respectability that is reached by the statistical reports in college alumni bulletins. They were the parents of two young children, they had been married nine years, they lived on the twelfth floor of an apartment house near Sutton Place, they went to the theatre on an average of 10.3 times a year, and they hoped someday to live in Westchester. Irene Westcott was a pleasant, rather plain girl with soft brown hair and a wide, fine forehead upon which nothing at all had been written, and in the cold weather she wore a coat of fitch skins dyed to resemble mink. You could not say that Jim Westcott looked younger than he was, but you could at least say of him that he seemed to feel younger. He wore his graying hair cut very short, he dressed in the kind of clothes his class had worn at Ando