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These outstanding stories of American award-winning novelist, John Cheever, show the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the century. Stories of love and squalor, set in a world in which momentary glimpses of brightness contend with time, social change, and the chaos of history.
- Sales Rank: #4720912 in Books
- Published on: 1979
- Format: Import
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 694 pages
Amazon.com Review
"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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"Cheever's accomplishment in his exacting art is proportionally large, as solid as it is brilliant, and likely to endure" New York Review of Books "Currently I'm reading John Cheever's Collected Stories. My God, he was good" -- David Mitchell "'The Swimmer' is a masterpiece of mystery, language and sorrow" -- Michael Chabon "I reread Cheever's 'The Swimmer' late the other night. It had the effect that reading Cheever always has: it made me want to get up and start the futile task of trying to write something as measured yet mysteriously, heart-judderingly unexpected for myself" -- Gordon Burns Sunday Times "Magnificently touching, moving and funny, and often set in an imaginary but archetypically well-heeled American suburb" -- Jan Morris
From the Inside Flap
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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HELP with the SUTTON PLACE story [SPOILER]....>
By MAMZELLLE
I have Cheever's ''short stories'' book after seeing the film again after decades, just to read Swimmer, and read 2 more to see if he always leaves people dangling... and IN '''Sutton Place story''', it also baffled me, if anyone's read that. I tried to mark the stories in table of contents that revolved around manhattan since that's my life and what i relate to, but ""SPOILER ALERT""... that one I do not know who ""Martha""is who gave her the bread, nor when there was even bread, but I think the name Martha is more the point, not the bread. Can anyone explain? I read a 3rd '''the sorrows of gin''', i think the next one after sutton place, only because it was very short, but it was not open ended, luckily, having hoped all of his works were not like that, which I do find too frustrating... I love things that make us ''THINK'' but not open ended. Again.....Could anyone explain the sutton place one, and MARTHA? Also there were so MANY unneccessary things in that sutton story, it was a total waste of reading, then hit with that Martha thing as the last words, unless I missed something, and the name marth WAS mentioned before through that story, if so couldin't have been more than once, or i'd have remembered it. So annoying and no time to trace back for the name. HELP. OH, and by the way... CHEEVER is IN his film ''The Swimmer'' at the very FIRST pool party, in case not everyone knows. He is in black pants and white shirt and tie shaking "Ned's" hand later in that same pool scene, with his wife Marge Champion coming out few minutes later, they are taking a plane that day. And "Ned" makes fun of his pouch tummy, that's Cheever. lol
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... sample of this book to see if I would like it and the first story was simply wonderful so ...
By Chasin T Turnier
I initially got the free sample of this book to see if I would like it and the first story was simply wonderful so I had to have the whole book. I really enjoyed the whole book, it is actually quite long and a good deal for the money to have so many classically American short stories. The only thing is that many of the subsequent stories are rather melancholy and I have had to read them only when in a good mood because they really got me down if I was not feeling really good before I read them. Sometimes I actually had to stop reading because they affected me so much. This book is quite powerful and though I really enjoyed that, I am not sure if I could or would want to read it again.
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An Essential for Any Reader
By Scott E. Amundsen
It is most appropriate that the entire body of Cheever's short stories should be brought together in one place. I bought this on the strength of one of these stories, "The Swimmer," the film version of which has enthralled me for years but which I had, somehow, never gotten round to reading.
Thematically speaking, Cheever bears a striking resemblance to F Scott Fitzgerald in his focus on a specific socioeconomic group in a specific location: the middle-to-upper-middle class in New York City and its suburbs. A few of his stories take place, at least in part, in Italy, most particularly Rome, but even in these stories the people seem to be displaced New Yorkers.
Most of Cheever's people either have money or are at least not struggling financially in any real sense. They are usually successfully married, but it is striking how often "successfully married" does not mean "happily married."
The overwhelming theme of many of these stories appears to be simple boredom. A man has a charming and gracious wife whom he loves and who loves him, yet he has an affair with another woman simply because the opportunity arises. This happens in a good many of the stories in this collection. At the end of the day, we are reading about people who by all accounts should be happy with their lives, but for reasons even they themselves do not know, they are not. Or they are, but the monotony of daily life has blinded them to it.
Some of the stories in here are real knockouts: "The Swimmer," the tale that got me to buy this collection, tells the tale of a man on a sort of reverse Odyssey, suburban style, which ends abruptly, leaving the reader baffled as to what has happened to him. Yet this is perhaps the best story in the entire collection.
There are also a handful of stories that have a certain otherworldly quality to them. A couple of them have strong echoes of Kurt Vonnegut. Whether Cheever was influenced by Vonnegut or vice versa I do not know, but if he was, I'm afraid he was reaching; the kind of fantasy world that Vonnegut was so comfortable in is not really Cheever's territory.
Reading all these tales in one collection produces a certain feeling of monotony; a lot of them are merely variations on the same theme, and a few of them are basically the same story told using different names and places.
That being said, it is a territory that Cheever knew well; the stories are all worthy of your time, and a few of them are absolute stunners.
As a collection, it has some flaws (monotony being the most prominent of these), but this is still an essential collection for anyone who enjoys good short stories.
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