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Collected Stories and Other Writings
Library of America, No. 188
Library of America
March 2009
On Sale: March 5, 2009
1056 pages
ISBN: 1598530348
EAN: 9781598530346
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey’s
groundbreaking new biography, here is the definitive
edition of the stories of John Cheever. Set in the tony
suburbs of Westchester and Connecticut, Cheever’s classic
stories charted a country as recognizable and essential to
American literature as Faulkner’s or Hawthorne’s. “Many
people have written about suburbia,” John Updike
observed, “only Cheever was able to make an archetypal
place out of it.” Collected Stories and Other Writings
combines the entire Pulitzer Prize–winning collection, The
Stories of John Cheever, with seven selections from his
first book, The Way Some People Live (1943)—here restored
to print—and seven additional stories first published in
periodicals between 1930 and 1953. Included are
masterpieces such as “The Enormous Radio,” “Goodbye, My
Brother,” and “The Swimmer,” as well as lesser-known gems.
Rounding out the volume are essays about writers and
writing, including an appreciation of F. Scott Fitzgerald
and an account of a visit to Chekhov’s house. A companion
volume, Complete Novels, gathers Cheever’s five novels in
one volume for the first time.
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