Research Catalog

Title

The stories of John Cheever / John Cheever.

Author

Cheever, John.

Publication

New York, NY : Knopf, 1978.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Description

viii, 693 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• From the Publisher: 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."
• A collection of sixty-one of Cheever's short stories, including four that have never been published in book form.

Subject

• United States > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction

Note

• Short stories, published 1946-75.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Awards (note)

• Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1979.

Contents

• Preface -- Goodbye, my brother -- Common day -- Enormous radio -- O city of broken dreams -- Hartleys -- Sutton Place story -- Summer farmer -- Torch song -- Pot of gold -- Clancy in the Tower of Babel -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor -- Season of divorce -- Chaste Clarissa -- Cure -- Superintendent -- Children -- Sorrows of gin -- O youth and beauty! -- Day the pig fell into the well -- Five-forty-eight -- Just one more time -- Housebreaker of Shady Hill -- Bus to St James's -- Worm in the apple -- Trouble of Marcie Flint -- Bella lingua -- Wrysons.
• Country husband -- Duchess -- Scarlet moving van -- Just tell me who it was -- Brimmer -- Golden age -- Lowboy -- Music teacher -- Woman without a country -- Death of Justina -- Clementina -- Boy in Rome -- Miscellany of characters that will not appear -- Chimera -- Seaside houses -- Angel of the bridge -- Brigadier and the golf widow -- Vision of the world -- Reunion -- Educated American woman -- Metamorphoses -- Mene, mene, tekel, Upharsin -- Montraldo -- Ocean -- Marito in Citta -- Geometry of love -- Swimmer -- World of apples -- Another story -- Percy -- Fourth alarm -- Artemis, the honest well digger -- Three stories -- Jewels of the Cabots.

Call Number

JFE 78-3268

ISBN

• 0394500873
• 9780394500874
• 0395500873 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

78000160

OCLC

3604267

Author

Cheever, John.

Title

The stories of John Cheever / John Cheever.

Imprint

New York, NY : Knopf, 1978.

Edition

1st ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Also issued online.

Awards

Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1979.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Other Form:

Online version: Cheever, John. Stories of John Cheever. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1978 (OCoLC)557900665

Research Call Number

JFE 78-3268