The Stories of John Cheever
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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.
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
collection by American
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author
Author
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John Cheever
John Cheever
John William Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy,...
. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio
The Enormous Radio
The Enormous Radio is a short story written by John Cheever in 1947. It first appeared in the May 17, 1947 issue of The New Yorker and was later collected in The Enormous Radio and Other Stories...
," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight
The Five-Forty-Eight
"The Five-Forty-Eight" is a 1954 short story by John Cheever published in The Stories of John Cheever, though it may have been published previously. The story is about a businessman called Blake, who is accosted on a train at gunpoint by his former secretary, named Miss Dent...
" and "The Swimmer
The Swimmer
"The Swimmer" a short story by American author John Cheever, published in 1964 in the short story collection The Brigadier and the Golf Widow. Originally conceived as a novel and pared down from over 150 pages of notes, it is probably Cheever's most famous and frequently anthologized story...
." It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. It originated as the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, which was awarded between 1918 and 1947.-1910s:...
and the National Book Critics Circle Award
National Book Critics Circle Award
The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle to promote the finest books and reviews published in English....
in 1979; the paperback version won the American Book Award for Fiction in 1981.
Stories included in the collection
- "Goodbye, My Brother"
- "The Common Regular Day"
- "The Enormous RadioThe Enormous RadioThe Enormous Radio is a short story written by John Cheever in 1947. It first appeared in the May 17, 1947 issue of The New Yorker and was later collected in The Enormous Radio and Other Stories...
" - "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-EightThe Five-Forty-Eight"The Five-Forty-Eight" is a 1954 short story by John Cheever published in The Stories of John Cheever, though it may have been published previously. The story is about a businessman called Blake, who is accosted on a train at gunpoint by his former secretary, named Miss Dent...
" - "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"
- "ReunionReunion (short story)Reunion is a short story by the American writer John Cheever, first published in 1962.- Summary :An unnamed narrator recalls his final, 90-minute meeting in New York City with his father, an alcoholic, also unnamed. The narrator describes himself as a boy, but we do not get his exact age...
" - "An Educated American Woman"
- "Metamorphoses"
- "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin"
- "Montraldo"
- "The Ocean"
- "Marito in Città"
- "The Geometry of Love"
- "The SwimmerThe Swimmer"The Swimmer" a short story by American author John Cheever, published in 1964 in the short story collection The Brigadier and the Golf Widow. Originally conceived as a novel and pared down from over 150 pages of notes, it is probably Cheever's most famous and frequently anthologized story...
" - "The World of Apples"
- "Another Story
- "Percy"
- "The Fourth Alarm"
- "Artemis, the Honest Well Digger"
- "Three Stories"
- "The Jewels of the Cabots"
External links
- Photos of the first edition of The Stories of John Cheever
- Paul Gray, "Inescapable Conclusions" (review), TimeTime (magazine)Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
, Oct. 16, 1978