The stories of John Cheever.

Author: Cheever, John.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1978.

ISBN: 0394500873
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Description: viii, 693 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject: United States Social life and customs 20th century Fiction.

Notes: Short stories, published 1946-75.

Contents: 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.