Status
Available
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Publication
Chicago, IL : Academy Chicago Publishers, 1994.
Description
The stories in this collection are ones that Cheever wrote in the 1930s and 1940s. There are 13 total, 11 of which are not available anywhere else, including the new Library of America edition. Interest in Cheever's work has been renewed with the publication of a new biography, John Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey. Readers of Cheever, both new and old, will be fascinated by this essential collection.
User reviews
LibraryThing member tandah
This is my first reading of John Cheever's writings, and I understand its very 'uncheeveresque' - a set of stories set during the depression, when there's not a lot of hope washing around, most people down on their luck, many trying to create luck in a number of tales set in Saratoga.