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The Stories of John Cheever (Vintage International)

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Updated: July 23, 2010

Content length: 914 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate 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,” these are tales that have helped define the form. Featuring a preface by the Pulizter Prize-winning author, The Stories of John Cheever brings together some of the finest short stories ever written. "Cheever’s crowning achievement is the ability to be simultaneously generous and cynical, to see that the absurd and the profound can reside in the same moment, and to acknowledge both at the detriment of neither." —The Guardian

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📚 Why We Recommend It

John Cheever’s pen is a warm scalpel, slicing through suburban white picket fences, apartment elevator doors, and cocktail party chandeliers—beneath sun-bleached lawns and the clink of post-dinner cutlery, there’s a current wilder than any drama.

Cheever’s greatest trick? Making you recognize yourself in “someone else’s life”: that moment of forced composure at a party, the sudden emptiness staring at an empty living room, the longings and losses masked by good manners. He never shouts, but every sentence hums with life’s quiet warmth—like a shirt on a clothesline, fluttering to reveal frayed collars, nibbled soft by time.

Open this collection, and step into a chain of rooms: in each, someone waits, offering a warm whiskey, ready to tell you a secret about “us”—that all ordinary days are just unspoken poems, waiting to be read.