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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, ...
The Five-Forty-Eight is a short story written by John Cheever that was originally published in the April 10, 1954, issue of The New Yorker [1] [2] and later collected in The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories (1958) and The Stories of John Cheever (1978). In 1955 The Five-Forty-Eight was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Magazine Award ...
John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". [1] [2] His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome.
The work was included in the short fiction collection The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964), published by Harper and Row. [1] [2] The story is one of Cheever's most anthologized works and is regarded as "a genuine masterpiece" of short fiction. [3] [4] "The Music Teacher" is included in The Stories of John Cheever (1978).
The Enormous Radio and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by John Cheever published in 1953 by Funk and Wagnalls. All fourteen stories were first published individually in The New Yorker. These works are included in The Stories of John Cheever (1978) published by Alfred A. Knopf. [1] [2]
The World of Apples is the sixth collection of short fiction by author John Cheever, published in 1973 by Alfred A. Knopf.The ten stories originally appeared individually in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Saturday Evening Post or Playboy.
—John E. O'Hara in John Cheever: A Study of the Short Fiction (1989) [8] With respect to this "manifesto", Waldeland observes that the protagonist, Asa Bascomb, liberates himself from his compulsive sexual fantasies by invoking the pantheon of deceased literary figures who have influenced him as a writer in his youth.
"The Enormous Radio" is a short story by American author John Cheever. It first appeared in the May 17, 1947, issue of The New Yorker, and was subsequently collected in The Enormous Radio and Other Stories., [1] 55 Short Stories from the New Yorker, and The Stories of John Cheever.
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