The Stories of John Cheever [Lingua inglese] - Brossura

Cheever, John

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ISBN 10: 0375724427 ISBN 13: 9780375724428

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2000

Riassunto

This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of Cheever's short fiction features "The Swimmer," "The Enormous Radio," "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill," and fifty-eight other stories written and published over the past three decades. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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Recensione:

"John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice, in his luminous short stories and in incomparable novels like Bullet Park and Falconer, is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature." —Philip Roth

"As stories go, as compellingly readable narratives of a certainsort of people in a certain time and place—our time and place—John Cheever's stories are, simply, the best." —The Washington Post

"Profound and daring...some of the most wonderful stories any American has written." —The Boston Globe

"Not merely the publishing event of the 'season' but a grand occasion in English literature." —The New York Times

L'autore:

Shortly before his death in 1982, John Cheever was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375724427
• ISBN 13: 9780375724428
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 704