The Stories of John Cheever (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of The Stories of John Cheever Saturday, October 31 2009.

Amanda approved Timothy Gray’s request to combine 29 books, including The Stories of John Cheever, Friday, October 16 2009.

Timothy Gray edited the awards of The Stories of John Cheever Monday, October 12 2009.

• Added an award: Pulitzer Prize
• Added category of an award: Pulitzer Prize Fiction
• Added year of an award: Pulitzer Prize 1979

Timothy Gray changed the title of The Stories of John Cheever Monday, October 12 2009.

Timothy Gray submitted a request to combine 29 books, including The Stories of John Cheever, Monday, October 12 2009.

eissme edited the quotations of The Stories of John Cheever Tuesday, August 11 2009.

• Added a quotation: “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.”

eissme edited the quotations of The Stories of John Cheever Sunday, August 9 2009.

• Added a quotation: “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.”

eissme edited the quotations of The Stories of John Cheever Monday, August 3 2009.

• Added a quotation: “They were dressed, like the people you sometimes see in Times Square on Saturday nights, in clothing that had been saved for their flight.”

eissme edited the quotations of The Stories of John Cheever Monday, August 3 2009.

• Added a quotation: “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.”

Shelfari edited the description of The Stories of John Cheever Sunday, August 2 2009.

• 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 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," Cheever tells us everything we need to know about "the pain and sweetness of life."