The Stories of John Cheever
Author | John Cheever |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Short story collection |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date |
1978 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 693 |
ISBN | 0-394-50087-3 |
The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Country Husband", "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The Swimmer". It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979 and its first paperback edition won a 1981 National Book Award.
Stories
- "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"
The John Cheever Audio Collection
Author | John Cheever |
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Audio read by | John Cheever, Benjamin Cheever, Meryl Streep, Edward Herrmann, Blythe Danner, George Plimpton, and Peter Gallagher |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Short story collection |
Publisher | Caedmon |
Publication date |
2004 |
Media type | Compact Disc, Digital Audio, MP3 |
In 2004, Caedmon released a recorded compilation of selected stories from The Stories of John Cheever, each read either by Cheever, George Plimpton, or a professional actor. Benjamin Cheever reads the introduction written by his father, and the full track list of stories is as follows:
- "The Enormous Radio" read by Meryl Streep
- "The Five-Forty-Eight" read by Edward Herrmann
- "O City of Broken Dreams" read by Blythe Danner
- "Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor" read by George Plimpton
- "The Season of Divorce" read by Edward Herrmann
- "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow" read by Peter Gallagher
- "The Sorrows of Gin" read by Meryl Streep
- "O Youth and Beauty!" read by Peter Gallagher
- "The Chaste Clarissa" read by Blythe Danner
- "The Jewels of the Cabots" read by George Plimpton
- "The Death of Justina" read by John Cheever
- "The Swimmer" read by John Cheever
Reception to the collection was positive. Publishers Weekly called the readers a "first-class lineup of narrators" and stated that "Cheever's archived readings that steal the show. His performance of "The Swimmer," in particular, boldly displays his contempt for the country-club set, while still evoking readers' sympathy for the hapless main character. The inclusion of [his] readings makes for a deeply personal, resonant finale to a truly superb production."