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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780375724428
ISBN: 0375724427
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 704
Publication Date: May 16, 2000
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: May 16, 2000
Sales Rank: 32576
Studio: Vintage
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Product 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."
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"These stories," writes Cheever in the preface to this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of 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. Here is the last of that generation of chain smokers who woke the world in the morning with their coughing, who used to get stoned at cocktail parties and perform obsolete dance steps like 'the Cleveland Chicken,' set sail for Europe on ships, who were truly nostalgic for love and happiness, and whose gods were as ancient as yours and mine, whoever you are."
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Of all the archetypal New Yorker short story writers of the Twentieth Century- John O'Hara, John Updike, Alice Adams, J.D. Salinger- perhaps the best of them was John Cheever- and he was certainly the best of the three big Johns. That said, I do not particularly like John Cheever's stories. Of the over sixty tales in this collection a good thee quarters involved characters that do not personally interest me- mid-Twentieth Century upper crust whites, martini-totaling who seem as stranded on the ... Read More
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That's not necessarily a bad thing, though.
There are the classics, like "The Swimmer", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill", and my personal favorite, "Reunion", which more than live up to the hype. Then there are the rest, which are a notch below. Some are boring, some are unsatisfying, and some just flat out go on too long and don't know when to end. Still, when taken as a whole, these stories provide a fascinating glimpse into the lives of those living in the ... Read More
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I bought this book for a research paper. It turned out to be a great book and is full of interesting short stories.
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Like any large collection of short fiction (and here Cheever's stories weight in at 693 pages in my edition) there is a great deal of material here that is of marginal quality. But for the reader who can hang on through Cheever's innumerable attempts to hammer out the same themes with relentless consistency (the rented summer home, the failed vacation, the desperate office manager, the expatriate in Italy living a dream of surreal desperation) this work is well worth reading for the surprises one ... Read More
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John Cheever tells his short, thought bending stories with the eye of a pained man. In the swimmer he outlines the deapths of alcoholism with an eye to detail and a symbolism that provkes great loss.
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