Literary Fiction · MelancholicSixty-one stories of American suburbs and what lies under them
The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
Cheever's stories of suburban life, from The Enormous Radio to The Swimmer
This is a collection of Cheever's short stories published in 1978 by Alfred A. Knopf. It includes his best-known pieces: The Enormous Radio, Goodbye, My Brother, The Country Husband, The Five-Forty-Eight and The Swimmer. His fiction, set mainly in Manhattan, Westchester, New England and Italy, explores the split between social facades and inner corruption.
More about this book
Who
Commuters, married couples, neighbors and families, mostly in the suburbs.
World
Manhattan, Westchester, New England and Italy.
What makes it different
It gathers the stories of one writer over decades in a single volume of 693 pages. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Feel
Elegant and sharp. Easy to dip into, one story at a time.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The Stories of John CheeverWikipedia