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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
1978

Publisher
  
Alfred A. Knopf

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Publication date
  
1978

Author
  
John Cheever

Country
  
United States of America

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Media type
  
Print (hardback & paperback)

Genres
  
Anthology, Fiction, Short story

Awards
  
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction (Paperback)

Similar
  
John Cheever books, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners, Fiction books

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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.

Contents

Stories included in the collection

  • "Goodbye, My Brother"
  • "The Common Regular 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"

    • References

    The Stories of John Cheever Wikipedia
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