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Stories of John Cheever (Mass Market Paperback)

by John Cheever (Author)

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Mass Market Paperback: 819 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books (Dec 12 1985)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345335678
ISBN-13: 978-0345335678
Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 4.1 cm
Shipping Weight: 409 g

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (44 customer reviews)

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"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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Winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER live in the community of emotions and dreams. The men and women are creatures of beauty, tragedy and restless privilege. And always they soar from the sadness of life to the older and more elegant realms of light, desire, memory, and love....
"Dazzling."
THE BOSTON GLOBE

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the all-time greats, Jun 2 2004

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This review is from: The Stories of John Cheever (Paperback)

John Cheever is one of the greatest writers ever to come out of this or any other country. He's incredibly unsung and my suspicions are that in twenty years we'll be singing his praises the way we do Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Few stories in this collection will disappoint, my favorites being "The Enormous Radio" and "The Swimmer." Still, read them for yourself and judge. Would also recommend Jackson McCrae's "The Bark of the Dogwood" for another excellent read.

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2.0 out of 5 stars over-rated, May 14 2004

By	Robert J. Crawford (Balmette Talloires, France) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Stories of John Cheever (Hardcover)

Wanting to have good national writers is a powerful motivator. I think that this has happened with John Cheever, from the retrospective praise of his work to our fascination with his bisexuality and persistent alcoholism. Indeed, his personal demons are far more interesting than his prose.

While I read isolated stories in mags and liked them, reading them in a lump like this makes his weaknesses seem very plain indeed. His stories almost all revolve around a common plot: things in the suburbs don't turn out the way we want, and most often, a lot of alcohol does little to soften the blow of deteriorating reliationships, alienated children, and nothing to do in retirement. When you read 20 stories like that in a row, Cheever appears as a feeble writer indeed. This a throwaway magazing writing, not some timeless achievement that should enter the pantheon.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Stories of family and friends, Mar 4 2004