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The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
ISBN: 0345335678
ISBN-13: 9780345335678
Format: Paperback
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Summary
To read all of these stories in three or four sittings is to enter a world of lush lawns and swimming pools, martinis and backyard barbecues, the alienation of living in a big city, the anxiety of being surrounded by those whom you hope you resemble. Here Cheever captures the essence of urbanity and suburbanness, the angst of the station wagon, the paradox of loneliness inherent in being surrounded by people. Also included in this collection are Cheever's stories of Italy.
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"These 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....Any precise documentation of one's immaturity is embarrassing, and this I find from time to time in the stories, but this embarrassment is redeemed for me by the memories the stories hold for me of the women and men I have loved and the rooms and corridors and beaches where the stories were written. My favorite stories are those that were written in less than a week and that were often composed aloud." -- John Cheever
"Cheever is a writer whose faults have an unusually close connection to his strengths. The imaginative identification with the upper-middle class which allows him to depict their mores and dilemmas with such vivacity entails a narrowness of social range and a sentimental snobbery which can get the best of him when his guard is down....[But] Cheever's accomplishment in his exactly art is proportionally large, as solid as it is brilliant, and likely to endure." -- Robert Towers
-- New York Review of Books
"This massive retrospective...is not only splendid from beginning to endpaper; it charts one of the most important bodies of work in contemporary letters." -- Paul Gray
-- Time
"[When sitting down to write] I always ask myself, 'Do I have anything to say, or do I have anything to say that strikes me as being urgent?'...If I have something to say, I proceed." -- John Cheever
"Mr. Cheever's account of life in suburbia makes one's soul ache." -- Guy Davenport
-- National Review
"[His] stories are a precise dissection of the ascending middle class and the declining American aristocracy." -- Jesse Kornbluth
-- New York Times
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published date: 1988
Size: 4.25 x 6.75 inches
Weight: 0.9 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER live in the community of emotions and dreams. The men and women are creatures of beauty, tragedy and restless privilege. And always they soar from the sadness of life to the older and more elegant realms of light, desire, memory, and love....
"Dazzling."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
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