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Original Title:	The Stories of John Cheever
ISBN:	0375724427 (ISBN13: 9780375724428)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1979), National Book Award for Fiction (Paperback) (1981), National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1978), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1979)

The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever

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Title	:	The Stories of John Cheever
Author	:	John Cheever
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 693 pages
Published	:	May 16th 2000 by Vintage International (first published 1978)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. Literature

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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." Goodbye, my brother -- The common day -- The enormous radio -- O city of broken dreams -- The Hartleys -- The Sutton Place story -- The summer farmer -- Torch song -- The pot of gold -- Clancy in the Tower of Babel -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor -- The season of divorce -- The chaste Clarissa -- The cure -- The superintendent -- The children -- The sorrows of gin -- O youth and beauty! -- The day the pig fell into the well -- The five-forty-eight -- Just one more time -- The housebreaker of Shady Hill -- The bus to St. James's -- The worm in the apple -- The trouble of Marcie Flint -- The bella lingua -- The Wrysons -- The country husband -- The duchess -- The scarlet moving van -- Just tell me who it was -- Brimmer -- The golden age -- The lowboy -- The music teacher -- A woman without a country -- The death of Justina -- Clementina -- Boy in Rome -- A miscellany of characters that will not appear -- The chimera -- The seaside houses -- The angel of the bridge -- The brigadier and the golf widow -- A vision of the world -- Reunion -- An educated American woman -- Metamorphoses -- Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin -- Montraldo -- The ocean -- Marito in città -- The geometry of love -- The swimmer -- The world of apples -- Another story -- Percy -- The fourth alarm -- Artemis, the honest well digger -- Three stories -- The jewels of the Cabots.

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Its pretty amazing but this book kept me interested for all 1004 pages of writing. I agreed to read this book as a buddy read with my friend, Tajma. (Don't read this, Tajma, but I really expected I wouldn't like it!) Surprise, surprise. I loved most of Cheever's short stories, preferring his mid-career stories to the later years. I didn't care for his essays in the back of the book much - I believe he writes fiction much better. This is how much I loved this book: I can't pick a favorite story.

We read Cheever not because we love stories about the suburbs, but because Cheever shows us that a wild imagination cant be bound even by the suburbs. We enjoy the quality of observation, the dialogue, the air-tight construction (and what he teaches us about form both in every example and over the course of the collection), but we read him for those moments when his stories take wing to escape cliche, banality, and the mundane.A few more thoughts on Cheever:

Where the hell have I been, this guy's a fucking genius. "Torch Song" is amazing, "The Chaste Clarissa" is hysterical, and the asshole elevator boy on Xmas day story has to be read to be believed. Cheever's sense of deadpan humor is sharp as a knife, "The Superintendent" being a great example. I'm only on page 200 but this is pure fucking gold.

What a craftsman. Cerebral and sad little gems.

This is actually my second time through this book, though the first time, years upon years back, I hadn't given it the attention I should have. I knew some Cheever classics, but my attetnion span in getting through this tome was not my best fresh out of graduate school, so this time I gave it a 7-month try to let me be ready to sit down and work at Cheever's pace through these stories. Cheever was one of the kings of suburban misery, but mostly in the latter half of this collection. Cheever

From "Goodbye, My Brother""Oh, what can you do with a man like that? What can you do? How can you dissuade his eyes in a crowd from seeking out the cheek with acne, the infirm hand; how can you teach him to respond to the inestimable greatness of the race, the harsh surface beauty of life; how can you put his finger for him on the obdurate truths before which fear and horror are powerless? The sea that morning was iridescent and dark. My wife and my sister were swimming -- Diana and Helen -- and

Note: The following is not a review of the entire collection. Rather, it's of one of the stories, probably the shortest, in the collection. This story alone, in my view, merits a five-star rating, representative of the rest. Reunion by John CheeverThe New Yorker Fiction Podcast couldn't have chosen a better specimen of short fiction for its inaugural episode. Aired on May 3, 2007, and hosted by The New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman, the episode featured Pulitzer Prize winner Richard