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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.
John Cheever: A Biography. Random House, New York. ISBN 0-394-54921-X; Meanor, Patrick. 1995. John Cheever Revisited. Twayne Publishers, New York. ISBN 0-8057-3999-8; O'Hara, James E. 1989. John Cheever: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne Publishers, Boston Massachusetts. Twayne Studies in Short Fiction no 9. ISBN 0-8057-8310-5; Waldeland ...
Publishers Weekly called the readers a "first-class lineup of narrators" and stated that "Cheever's archived readings that steal the show. His performance of " The Swimmer ," in particular, boldly displays his contempt for the country-club set, while still evoking readers' sympathy for the hapless main character.
"Fall River" is a short story by John Cheever which originally appeared in the political journal The Left in the fall of 1931. [1] [2] The story is included in Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever (1994) published by Academy Chicago Publishers. [3] "Fall River" is Cheever's second published work. [4]
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Mary Cheever had entered into a contract with Academy for the nominal fee of $1500 to permit publication of a sampling of Cheever's uncollected early short fiction, pending family consultation. When the publisher sought to include all the works not published in The Stories of John Cheever (1978)—a total of 68 stories—a protracted legal ...
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