PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A seminal collection
from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration
of Cheever's long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories
chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called "the
greatest generation."
From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "The Enormous
Radio" to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in
"The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" and "The Swimmer," these are tales that
have helped define the form. Featuring a preface by the Pulizter
Prize-winning author, The Stories of John Cheever brings together some
of the finest short stories ever written.
"Cheever's crowning achievement is the ability to be simultaneously
generous and cynical, to see that the absurd and the profound can reside
in the same moment, and to acknowledge both at the detriment of
neither." --The Guardian