Collected stories and other writings / John Cheever.

By: Cheever, John [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of America ; 188.Description: xi, 1040 pages ; 21 cmISBN: 9781598530346; 1598530348Uniform titles: Works. Selections. 2009 Subject(s): Short stories, AmericanGenre/Form: Short stories. | Essays.Additional physical formats: Online version:: Collected stories and other writings.LOC classification: PS3505.H6428 | A6 2009PS3505.H6428 | A6 2009
Contents:
The stories of John Cheever. Preface -- Goodbye, my brother -- The common day -- The enormous radio -- 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-eight -- 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 -- Reunion -- An educated American woman -- Metamorphoses -- Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin -- Montraldo -- The ocean -- Marito in Città -- The geometry of love -- The swimmer -- The world of apples -- Another story -- Percy -- The fourth alarm -- Artemis, the honest well-digger -- Three stories -- The jewels of the Cabots.
from The way some people live. Summer theatre -- Forever hold your peace -- Of love : a testimony -- The brothers -- Publick house -- When Grandmother goes -- The tragic years.
Other stories. Expelled -- The autobiography of a drummer -- In passing -- Play a march -- Town house -- Roseheath -- The national pastime.
Other writings. What happened -- Moving out -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The melancholy of distance -- On Saul Bellow -- Why I write short stories -- My friend, Malcolm Cowley.
Summary: Collected Stories and Other Writings combines the entire Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, The Stories of John Cheever, with seven selections from his first book, The Way Some People Live (1943)-here restored to print-and seven additional stories first published in periodicals between 1930 and 1953. Included are masterpieces such as The Enormous Radio, Goodbye, My Brother, and The Swimmer, as well as lesser-known gems.
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The stories of John Cheever. Preface -- Goodbye, my brother -- The common day -- The enormous radio -- 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-eight -- 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 -- Reunion -- An educated American woman -- Metamorphoses -- Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin -- Montraldo -- The ocean -- Marito in Città -- The geometry of love -- The swimmer -- The world of apples -- Another story -- Percy -- The fourth alarm -- Artemis, the honest well-digger -- Three stories -- The jewels of the Cabots.

from The way some people live. Summer theatre -- Forever hold your peace -- Of love : a testimony -- The brothers -- Publick house -- When Grandmother goes -- The tragic years.

Other stories. Expelled -- The autobiography of a drummer -- In passing -- Play a march -- Town house -- Roseheath -- The national pastime.

Other writings. What happened -- Moving out -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The melancholy of distance -- On Saul Bellow -- Why I write short stories -- My friend, Malcolm Cowley.

Collected Stories and Other Writings combines the entire Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, The Stories of John Cheever, with seven selections from his first book, The Way Some People Live (1943)-here restored to print-and seven additional stories first published in periodicals between 1930 and 1953. Included are masterpieces such as The Enormous Radio, Goodbye, My Brother, and The Swimmer, as well as lesser-known gems.

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