The Collected Works of John Cheever

Author(s): John Cheever

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 first book, "The Way Some People Live" (1943) and seven additional stories first published in periodicals between 1930 and 1953. The second, "Complete Novels," presents all five of Cheever's novels: "The Wapshot Chronicle" (winner of the National Book Award); "The Wapshot Scandal" (winner of the William Dean Howells Medal); "Bullet"" Park"; "Falconer"; and "Oh What a Paradise It Seems."

General Information

  • : 9781598531633
  • : Library of America
  • : Library of America
  • : 1.42
  • : 25 April 2012
  • : United States
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : John Cheever
  • : Counterpack - filled
  • : 1973

More About The Product

Blake Bailey, editor, is the author of "A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates" and "Cheever: A Life," winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award.