The Stories Of John Cheever

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1093 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : John Cheever,Blake Bailey
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015079236587

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John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #188) by John Cheever,Blake Bailey Pdf

This landmark volume combines the entire Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, "The Stories of John Cheever," with seven selections from Cheever's first book, "The Way Some People Live."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Swimmer by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : New York : Funk & Wagnalls
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Popular literature
ISBN : UOM:39015005180149

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The Enormous Radio, and Other Stories by John Cheever Pdf

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : John Cheever,Blake Bailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : 401 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593312308

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The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Pulitzer Prize winner John Cheever’s classic novel about one eccentric New England family, inspired by the author's own adolescence. The Wapshots have called the quintessential Massachusetts fishing village of St. Botolphs home for eons, but now it is time for the next generation—brothers Moses and Coverly—to go out and see the world. Moses heads to New York City and, eventually, a remote island in the South Pacific, while his brother travels south to Washington, D.C., and a job “so secret that it can’t be discussed here.” Meanwhile, back in St. Botolphs, their father, Captain Leander, clashes with his fearsome Cousin Honora, who controls the family purse strings. By turns tragic and deeply funny, The Wapshot Chronicle is a “richly inventive and vividly told” (The New York Times Magazine) work of fiction about one very odd family.

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781598531633

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The Collected Works of John Cheever by John Cheever Pdf

Here, for his centennial, is the definitive two-volume edition of the stories and novels of John Cheever. The first volume, Collected Stories and Other Writings, combines the Pulitzer Prize–winning collection The Stories of John Cheever with seven selections—here restored to print—from Cheever's first book, The Way Some People Live (1943) and seven additional stories first published in periodicals between 1930 and 1953. The second, Complete Novels, presents all five of Cheever's novels: The Wapshot Chronicle (winner of the National Book Award); The Wapshot Scandal (winner of the William Dean Howells Medal); Bullet Park; Falconer; and Oh What a Paradise It Seems.

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,5 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

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101973202

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The Jewels of the Cabots by John Cheever Pdf

In this fabulous short story, the crown jewel of John Cheever’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Stories of John Cheever, a man agonizes about class privilege and racism, confessing to the knowledge of a terrible crime and exposing a quiet American family’s darkest secrets. Wandering about the sleepy Connecticut town of his childhood, where residents lead lives of grueling boredom, a journalist reminisces about the Cabot children: Molly, a sweet girl and his first love; Geneva who pilfered her mother’s diamonds from the clothesline and ran off to the Middle East; Wallace, Mr. Cabot’s bastard son who lives in the tenements across the river; and the dwarf, Mrs. Cabot’s child from an earlier marriage. An ebook short. A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection.

Author : Erica Heller
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781683358916

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One Last Lunch by Erica Heller Pdf

In this heartwarming essay collection, dozens of authors, actors, artists and others imagine one last lunch with someone they cherished. A few years ago, Erica Heller realized how universal the longing is for one more moment with a lost loved one. It could be a parent, a sibling, a mentor, or a friend, but who wouldn’t love the opportunity to sit down, break bread, and just talk? Who wouldn’t jump at the chance to ask those unasked questions, or share those unvoiced feelings? In One Last Lunch, Heller has asked friends and family of authors, artists, musicians, comedians, actors, and others, to recount one such fantastic repast. Muffie Meyer and her documentary subject Little Edie Beale go to a deli in Montreal. Kirk Douglas asks his father what he thought of him becoming an actor. Sara Moulton dines with her friend Julia Child. The Anglican priest George Pitcher has lunch with Jesus. And Heller herself connects with her father, the renowned author Joseph Heller. These richly imagined stories are endlessly revealing, about the subject, the writer, the passage of time, regret, gratitude, and the power of enduring love.

Author : Blake Bailey
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0330437909

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Cheever by Blake Bailey Pdf

John Cheever was one of the foremost chroniclers of post-war America, a peerless writer who on his death in 1982 left not only some of the best short stories of the twentieth century and a number of highly acclaimed novels, but also a private journal that runs to an astonishing four million words. Cheever’s was a soul in conflictm who hid his troubles - alcoholism, secret bisexuality - behind the screen of genial life in suburbia, but as John Updike came to remark: ‘Only he saw in its cocktail parties and swimming pools the shimmer of dissolving dreams . . .’ Blake Bailey, writing with unprecedented access to the journal and other sources, has brought characteristic eloquence and sensitivity to his interpretation of Cheever’s life and work. This is a luminous biography that reveals – behind the disguises with which he faced the world – a troubled but strangely lovable man, and a writer of timeless fiction. ‘Stunningly detailed . . . Even more eloquent and resourceful than Bailey’s celebrated biography of Richard Yates, A Tragic Honesty . . . Bailey’s interweaving of Cheever’s fiction with his experience is a tour de force’ New York Times Book Review

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015066052146

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The Way Some People Live by John Cheever Pdf

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039052787

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The Day the Pig Fell Into the Well by John Cheever Pdf