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A Vision of the World: Selected Short Stories by John Cheever
Category: Fiction
The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most important and influential short story writer. Selected and introduced by Julian BarnesThe first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most influential short story writer.SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JULIAN BARNESW ...Show more
A Vision of the World: Selected Short Stories by John Cheever
Category: Fiction
The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century’s most influential short story writer. SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JULIAN BARNES Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, John Cheever - variously referred to as ‘Ovid in Ossining’ and the ‘Chekhov of the suburbs’ - foreve ...Show more
Bullet Park by John Cheever
Category: Fiction
Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names in Cheever's sharp and funny hymn to the dubious normality of the American suburbs. ...Show more
Drinking: Vintage Minis by John Cheever
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
What's the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, these are ...Show more
Falconer by John Cheever
Category: Fiction
A story of human redemption, Falconer explores an ex-professor's experiences as an inmate in Falconer Prison. Ezekiel Farragut, convicted of killing his brother, has been imprisoned in the state prison where he is visited by his wife Marcia, with whom he has a love-hate relationship. Falconer tells the ...Show more
Falconer by John Cheever
Category: Fiction
Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a drug-addict and a murderer. Locked in Falconer State Penitentiary, he struggles through tormenting visits from his wife, the burden of memory and guilt, and the brutal monotony of his surroundings to retain his humanity, eventually finding the possibility of re ...Show more
Falconer (Popular Penguin) by John Cheever
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Ezekiel Farragut, a college professor and heroin addict, is sent to Falconer Correctional Facility after murdering his brother. Enclosed in a filthy cell, witness to the routine savagery of the guards and his fellow prisoners - murderers, conmen and thieves - Farragut believes he is one of the living de ...Show more
Oh, What a Paradise it Seems by John Cheever
Category: Fiction
In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears' paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters involved in organised crime. Can Sears thwart the monstrous aspects of l ...Show more
The Collected Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever; Hanif Kureishi (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"These outstanding stories of American award-winning novelist, John Cheever, show the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the century. Stories of love and squalor, set in a world in which momentary glimpses of brightness contend with time, social change, and the chaos of history. ...Show more
The Collected Works of John Cheever by John Cheever
Category: Fiction
Here, for his centennial, is the definitive two-volume edition of the stories and novels of John Cheever. The first volume, "Collected Stories and Other Writings," combines the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection "The Stories of John Cheever" with seven selections--here restored to print--from Cheever's f ...Show more