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The stories of John Cheever /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Knopf, 1978.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 693 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0394500873
  • 9780394500874
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Stories of John Cheever.DDC classification:
  • 813/.5/2
LOC classification:
  • PZ3.C3983 St PS3505.H6428
Other classification:
  • 18.06
  • 17.97
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
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 Citt�a -- Geometry of love -- Swimmer -- World of apples -- Another story -- Percy -- Fourth alarm -- Artemis, the honest well digger -- Three stories -- Jewels of the Cabots.
Awards:
  • Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1979.
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."Summary: A collection of sixty-one of Cheever's short stories, including four that have never been published in book form.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F CHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PS3505.H6428 A6 1990 1 Available 34562000007038

Short stories, published 1946-75.

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 Citt�a -- Geometry of love -- Swimmer -- World of apples -- Another story -- Percy -- Fourth alarm -- Artemis, the honest well digger -- Three stories -- Jewels of the Cabots.

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.

Also issued online.

Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1979.

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