Collected Stories: John Cheever - Softcover

Cheever, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099748304 ISBN 13: 9780099748304

Verlag: Vintage Classics, 1990

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John Cheever’s Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHI

This 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. Stories of love and of squalor, they include masterpieces such as 'The Swimmer' and 'Goodbye, My Brother' and date from the time of his honourable discharge from the Army at the end of the Second World War.

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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.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0099748304
• ISBN 13: 9780099748304
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 912
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Vintage Classics; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/VCL/vintage-classics/; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italien