Cheever

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1093 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307743985

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The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever Pdf

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

Author : Blake Bailey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400079681

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Cheever by Blake Bailey Pdf

John Cheever spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. Written with unprecedented access to essential sources—including Cheever’s massive journal, only a fraction of which has ever been published—Bailey’s Cheever is a stunning example of the biographer’s art and a brilliant tribute to an essential author.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448137794

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The Art of Fiction by David Lodge Pdf

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.

Author : Anita Miller
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780897338790

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Uncollecting Cheever by Anita Miller Pdf

The story of how little Academy Chicago Publishers (co-owned by the author and her husband, Jordan Miller) tried to publish the late John Cheever's uncollected short stories, and was blocked from doing so by Cheever's family, is now a familiar part of publishing lore (and law).

Author : John Cheever,Blake Bailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015079236298

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John Cheever: Complete Novels (LOA #189) by John Cheever,Blake Bailey Pdf

The Library of America presents this definitive collection of Cheever's novels: "The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park, Falconer," and "Oh What a Paradise It Seems."

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307760715

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Falconer by John Cheever Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stunning and brutally powerful, "one of the most important novels of our time" (The New York Times) tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him back into childhood. In a nightmarish prison, out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction. Only Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438116228

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John Cheever by Harold Bloom Pdf

Critics examine the Cheever's short stories "The Country Husband," "Goodbye, My Brother," and "The Five-Forty-Eight."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Swimmer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410343338

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A Study Guide for John Cheever's "The Country Husband" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

Author : Charles Wentworth Upham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081810616

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The Charge of Ignorance and Misrepresentation Proved Against George B. Cheever by Charles Wentworth Upham Pdf

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410359810

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A Study Guide for John Cheever's "Swimmer" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for John Cheever's "Swimmer," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : John Tyler Hassam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600043869

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Ezekiel Cheever and some of his descendants. [Followed by] Appendix [of Cheever's poems]. by John Tyler Hassam Pdf

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307759986

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Oh What a Paradise It Seems by John Cheever Pdf

From one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers, this “luminous ephiphany of life ... [is] a charming fable of old age, nostalgia, and loss” (The Washington Post Book World). Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever's final novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man, Lemuel Sears, who still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is threatened; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters. In Cheever's accomplished hands the battle between an elderly romantic and the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilization becomes something ribald, poignant, and ineffably joyful. "This is perfect Cheever—it is perfect." —The New York Times Book Review

Author : Susan Cheever
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455513864

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Drinking in America by Susan Cheever Pdf

In DRINKING IN AMERICA, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American character from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Seen through the lens of alcoholism, American history takes on a vibrancy and a tragedy missing from many earlier accounts. From the drunkenness of the Pilgrims to Prohibition hijinks, drinking has always been a cherished American custom: a way to celebrate and a way to grieve and a way to take the edge off. At many pivotal points in our history-the illegal Mayflower landing at Cape Cod, the enslavement of African Americans, the McCarthy witch hunts, and the Kennedy assassination, to name only a few-alcohol has acted as a catalyst. Some nations drink more than we do, some drink less, but no other nation has been the drunkest in the world as America was in the 1830s only to outlaw drinking entirely a hundred years later. Both a lively history and an unflinching cultural investigation, DRINKING IN AMERICA unveils the volatile ambivalence within one nation's tumultuous affair with alcohol.

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307760395

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Bullet Park by John Cheever Pdf

From "a master American storyteller" (TIME), Bullet Park traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and the man who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park with one objective—to murder Nailles's son. Welcome to Bullet Park, a township in which even the most buttoned-down gentry sometimes manage to terrify themselves simply by looking in the mirror. In these exemplary environs Pulitzer Prize winner John Cheever delivers a lyrical and mordantly funny hymn to the American suburb—and to all the dubious normalcy it represents—written with unparalleled artistry and assurance. “A magnificent work of fiction.… A novel to pore over, move around in, live with." —The New York Times