"It was a sad moment when I finished the last story in this collection. I tried to make them last as long as I could, limiting myself to two or three stories at a time, then forcing myself to stop lest I tear through all of them in one mad binge. For eight months I did this, dragging out the inexorable, and then one day it was over. I turned the last page and realized I could never to go back to having not read this amazing collection of stories. Then, thankfully, I remembered that I have yet to read his novels."
Publisher Vintage
Publication Date 2000-05-16
Section Fiction / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Brad L.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780375724428
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."
