The Stories of John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever

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author = John Cheever
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Short story collection
publisher = Alfred A. Knopf
release_date = 1978
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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"The Stories of John Cheever" is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The Swimmer." It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979; the paperback version won the American Book Award for Fiction in 1981.

tories included in the collection

*"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"
*"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 Città"
*"The Geometry of Love"
*"The Swimmer"
*"The World of Apples"
*"Another Story"
*"Percy"
*"The Forth Alarm"
*"Artemis, the Honest Well Digger"
*"Three Stories"
*"The Jewels of the Cabots"

External links

* [http://www.pprize.com/BookDetail.php?bk=61 Photos of the first edition of The Stories of John Cheever]
* Paul Gray, [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916455,00.html "Inescapable Conclusions"] (review), "Time", Oct. 16, 1978


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