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Title
- The Stories Of John Cheever
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Attribution
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Publication Details
Book1stKnopf1978
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Availability
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Description
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 Trade Paperback edition.
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Notes
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Short stories, published 1946-75
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Contents
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
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ISBN
- 0394500873
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