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"The Swimmer" is a short story by American author John Cheever. It was originally published in The New Yorker on July 18, 1964, and later in the short-fiction collections The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964) and The Stories of John Cheever (1978). [ 1 ]
The story is based on the 1964 short story "The Swimmer" by John Cheever, which appeared in the July 18, 1964, issue of The New Yorker. [2] The 95-minute movie adds new characters and scenes consistent with those in the original 12-page short story.
"The Swimmer" read by John Cheever Reception to the collection was positive. Publishers Weekly called the readers a "first-class lineup of narrators" and stated that "Cheever's archived readings that steal the show.
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 in 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.
Pages in category "Short stories by John Cheever" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. ... The Swimmer (short story) T.
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 ...
The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by John Cheever. Composed of eight short stories, the volume was first published by Harper & Bros. in 1958. Reissued by Hillman/MacFadden in 1961, the works are included in The Stories of John Cheever (1978).
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.