Stories of John Cheever

Informationen zum Autor John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912, and he went to school at Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle , won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1978 he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer prize. Shortly before his death in 1982 he was awarded the National Medal for Literature. Klappentext WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer prize-winning novelist John Cheever show the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the last century. Zusammenfassung John Cheever’s Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Cheever shows the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the last century.

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I've read nothing better this year than The Stories of John Cheever. Peter McKay Daily Mail, Book of the Year

Product details

• Authors: Cheeve, J. Cheever, John Cheever, Kureishi
• Assisted by: Hanif Kureishi (Introduction), Kureishi Hanif (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.10.1990
• EAN: 9780099748304
• ISBN: 978-0-09-974830-4
• No. of pages: 912
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 47 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, United States of America, USA, Modern and contemporary fiction