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Collected Stories and Other Writings combines the entire Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, The Stories of John Cheever, with seven selections from his first book, The Way Some People Live (1943)-here restored to print-and seven additional stories first published in periodicals between 1930 and 1953. Included are masterpieces such as The Enormous Radio, Goodbye, My Brother, and The Swimmer, as well as lesser-known gems.

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English
Pages
1040

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Collected stories and other writings
2009, Library of America, Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam
in English
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Collected stories and other writings
2009, Library of America, Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam
in English

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Table of Contents

The stories of John Cheever.
Preface --
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.
from The way some people live.
Summer theatre --
Forever hold your peace --
Of love : a testimony --
The brothers --
Publick house --
When Grandmother goes --
The tragic years.
Other stories.
Expelled --
The autobiography of a drummer --
In passing --
Play a march --
Town house --
Roseheath --
The national pastime.
Other writings.
What happened --
Moving out --
F. Scott Fitzgerald --
The melancholy of distance --
On Saul Bellow --
Why I write short stories --
My friend, Malcolm Cowley.

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New York
Series
Library of America -- 188, Library of America -- 188.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3505.H6428 A6 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 1040 p. ;
Number of pages
1040

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23654335M
Internet Archive
collectedstories0000chee
ISBN 10
1598530348
ISBN 13
9781598530346
LCCN
2008935565
OCLC/WorldCat
311867215
Goodreads
4348374

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