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Description
When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has become a classic. Vintage Books is proud to reintroduce this magnificent collection. Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the... read more
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“she is deeply concerned with the propriety of her house, and anything irregular by her standards, like drinking straight rum or bringing a beer can to the dinner table, excites in her a conflict that she cannot, even with her capacious sense of humor, surmount.”
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“They were dressed, like the people you sometimes see in Times Square on Saturday nights, in clothing that had been saved for their flight.”
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“Some people make less of an adventure than a performance of their passions. They do not seem to fall in love and make friends but to cast, with men, women, children, and dogs, some stirring drama that they were committed to producing at the moment of their birth.”
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“New York was populated by harried, nervous, avaricious foreigners who lacked the character to bathe in cold water at six in the morning and to live, with composure, lives of grueling boredom.”
First Sentence
WE ARE a family that has always been very close in spirit.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- John Cheever (Author)
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize (1979: Fiction)
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