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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 Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. ... "The Death of Justina" read by John Cheever "The Swimmer" read by ...
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. Torch Song (short ...
The thirty short stories selected for publication in The Way Some People Live are a sampling of the more than 40 short stories Cheever wrote between 1930 and 1943. These depression-era works appeared in a number of literary journals, including Collier's, The New Republic, The Yale Review, Story and The New Yorker.
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.
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).