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  • The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by John Cheever ...
    Series series Vintage International
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.”From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Wapshot Chronicle

    by John Cheever ...
    There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New England, The Wapshot Chronicle is a family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James ... Read more

    $1.31 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Swimmer

    by John Cheever ...
    Here is the preface to 12 magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, 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 ... Read more

    $1.33 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Journals of John Cheever

    by John Cheever ...
    Series series Vintage International
    In these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail. • "A treasure-trove of riches." —The New York Times Book ReviewThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author's journals provide peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories. But they are equally the record of a complex, often dark, always ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Fall River and Other Uncollected Stories

    by John Cheever ...
    The stories in this collection are ones that Cheever wrote in the 1930s and 1940s. There are 13 total, 11 of which are not available anywhere else, including the new Library of America edition. Interest in Cheever's work has been renewed with the publication of a new biography, John Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey. Readers of Cheever, both new and old, will be fascinated by this essential ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wapshot Chronicle

    by John Cheever ...
    There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New England ... Read more

    $2.36 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fall River and Other Uncollected Stories

    by John Cheever ...
    The stories in this collection are ones that Cheever wrote in the 1930s and 1940s. There are 13 total, 11 of which are not available anywhere else, including the new Library of America edition. Interest in Cheever's work has been renewed with the publication of a new biography, John Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey. Readers of Cheever, both new and old, will be fascinated by this essential ... Read more

    $11.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Falconer

    by John Cheever ...
    Series series Vintage International
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stunning and brutally powerful, "one of the most important novels of our time" (The New York Times) tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him back into childhood.In a nightmarish prison, out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Oh What a Paradise It Seems

    by John Cheever ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers, this “luminous ephiphany of life ... [is] a charming fable of old age, nostalgia, and loss” (The Washington Post Book World).Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever's final novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man, Lemuel Sears, who still has it in him to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Wapshot Chronicle

    by John Cheever ...
    Series series Vintage International
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Pulitzer Prize winner John Cheever’s classic novel about one eccentric New England family, inspired by the author's own adolescence. The Wapshots have called the quintessential Massachusetts fishing village of St. Botolphs home for eons, but now it is time for the next generation—brothers Moses and Coverly—to go out and see the world.Moses heads to New York City and, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Bullet Park

    by John Cheever ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From "a master American storyteller" (TIME), Bullet Park traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and the man who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park with one objective—to murder Nailles's son.Welcome to Bullet Park, a township in which even the most buttoned-down gentry sometimes manage ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Jewels of the Cabots

    by John Cheever ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    In this fabulous short story, the crown jewel of John Cheever’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Stories of John Cheever, a man agonizes about class privilege and racism, confessing to the knowledge of a terrible crime and exposing a quiet American family’s darkest secrets.Wandering about the sleepy Connecticut town of his childhood, where residents lead lives of grueling boredom, a ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook