"John Cheever is a magnificent storyteller and this is a powerful and dazzling book."
--The New Republic
"The Stories of John Cheever is a book that immediately takes its place on the rather small shelf that houses the classics of American literature, a book that moves Cheever beyond the bestseller lists and into the company of Hawthorne and Fitzgerald, Melville and Faulkner, Crane and James. I think it safe to say that this is a great book."
--The Miami Herald
John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the National Book Award in 1958, and The Stories of John Cheerer won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. He received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Medal for Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in 1982.
Preface
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 HiU
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
Just Tell Me Who It Was
Brimmer
The Golden Age
The Lowboy
The Music Teacher
A Woman Without a Country
The Death of Justina
Clementina
Boy in Rome
A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear
The Chimera
The Seaside Houses
The Angel of the Bridge
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow
A Vision of the World
Reunion
An Educated American Woman
Metamorphoses
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
Montraldo
The Ocean
Marito-in Citta
The Geometry of Love
The Swimmer
The World of Apphs
Another Story
Percy
The Fourth Alarm
Artemis, the Honest Well Digger
Three Stories
The Jewels of the Cabots