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  • The Stories of John Cheever

    • ASIN: 0375724427
    • ISBN: 0375724427
    • Brand: Vintage Books USA
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWhen 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 stor... [Read More]

  • John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings (Library of America, No. 188)

    • ASIN: 1598530348
    • ISBN: 9781598530346
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    John Cheever’s stories rank among the finest achievements of twentieth-century short fiction. Ensnared by the trappings of affluence, adrift in the emptiness of American prosperity, his characters find themselves in the midst of dramas that, however comic, pose profound questions about conformity and class, pleasure and propriety, and the conduct... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

    • UPC: 046442843676
    • ASIN: 0395843677
    • ISBN: 0395843677
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the b... [Read More]

  • John Cheever: Complete Novels

    • ASIN: 1598530356
    • ISBN: 1598530356
    • Brand: Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey?s groundbreaking new biography, here are the five novels of John Cheever, together in one volume for the first time. In these dazzling works Cheever laid bare the failings and foibles of not just the ascendant postwar elite but also the fallen Yankee aristocrats who stubbornly? and often grotesquely an... [Read More]

  • The Collected Works of John Cheever: A Library of America Boxed Set

    • ASIN: 1598531638
    • ISBN: 1598531638
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    Here, for his centennial, is the definitive two-volume edition of the stories and novels of John Cheever. The first volume, Collected Stories and Other Writings, combines the Pulitzer Prize–winning collection The Stories of John Cheever with seven selections—here restored to print—from Cheever’s first book, The Way Some People Live (1943) a... [Read More]

  • 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547485859
    • ISBN: 0547485859
    • Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-... [Read More]

  • The Stories of John Cheever

    • ASIN: B00LMGDT68
    • ISBN: 0345284364
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine

    Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee.

  • Ten North Frederick (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0143107100
    • ISBN: 0143107100
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    The National Book Award–winning novel by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz called “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald”Joe Chapin led a storybook life. A successful small-town lawyer with a beautiful wife, two over-achieving children, and aspirations to be president, he seemed to have it all. But as his daughter looks back on his life, a different man e... [Read More]

  • American Short Story Masterpieces (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759499137
    • ASIN: 0486499138
    • ISBN: 0486499138
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    As variegated as the American experience itself, this original treasury reflects the vibrant role of the short story in our national literature. Fourteen outstanding tales by famous American authors unfold in settings ranging from the decaying family mansion of Edgar Allan Poe's dark psychological thriller, "The Fall of the House of Usher," to the ... [Read More]

  • Bad Behavior: Stories

    • ASIN: 1439148872
    • ISBN: 1439148872
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    A trade paperback reissue of National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s debut collection, Bad Behavior—powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is searching for human connection. • Now a classic: Bad Behavior made critical waves when it first published,... [Read More]

  • Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

    • ASIN: 0307386716
    • ISBN: 0307386716
    • Brand: Anchor
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunat... [Read More]

  • Avid Reader: A Life

    • ASIN: 0374279926
    • ISBN: 0374279926
    • Brand: Farrar Straus and Giroux
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his timeAfter editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having d... [Read More]

  • Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0143105477
    • ISBN: 0143105477
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    “I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius, I think it brilliant, splendid, etc. If there is literature (and this proves there is) this is where it’s at.” –John CheeverA Penguin ClassicSaul Bellow’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores the long friendship between Charlie Citrine, a young man with an intense passion for... [Read More]

  • Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

    • ASIN: B00XST7LK2
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary

    • ASIN: 1524732486
    • ISBN: 1524732486
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

    A New York Times Critic's Top Pick of the YearThis essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection shows one of our greatest writers parsing the political, artistic, and media landscape of the past three decades. These sixty-six essays and reviews, culled from the pages of The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Atlan... [Read More]

  • The John Cheever Audio Collection

    • ASIN: 0060554835
    • ISBN: 0060554835
    • Manufacturer: Caedmon

    Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have. As Cheever writes in his preface, 'These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a... [Read More]

  • John Cheever (Bloom's Major Short Story Writers)

    • ASIN: 0791075893
    • ISBN: 0791075893
    • Brand: Brand: Chelsea House Pub (L)
    • Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications

    Presents plot summaries, lists of characters, and critical views of the author's most famous short stories.

  • Thirteen Uncollected Stories By John Cheever

    • ASIN: 0897334051
    • ISBN: 0897334051
    • Brand: Brand: Academy Chicago Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Academy Chicago Publishers

    A gathering of thirteen never-before-collected stories, originally published in the 1930s and 1940s, shows Cheever's use of unusual themes, techniques, and characters early in his career and gives a vivid picture of life during the Depression.

  • Cheever: A Life

    • ASIN: 1400043948
    • ISBN: 1400043948
    • Brand: Brand: Knopf
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

  • Essential Cheever CD: The Enormous Radio and The Swimmer (Caedmon Essentials)

    • ASIN: 0061126462
    • ISBN: 0061126462
    • Manufacturer: Caedmon

    One Great Author. One Great CD.Here are two magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have. As Cheever wrote, "These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman... [Read More]

  • The Swimmer John Cheever (Full Audiobook)

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    The Enormous Radio John Cheever (Full Audiobook)