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Learn moreHere are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.
As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.""
John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 The Stories of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death, in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
The preface is read by Benjamin Cheever, author of The Plagiarist, The Parisian and Famous after Death. The stories include:
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The Enormous Radio read by Meryl Streep -
The Five-Forty-Eight read by Edward Herrmann -
O City of Broken Dreams read by Blythe Danner -
Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor read by George Plimpton -
The Season of Divorce read by Edward Herrmann -
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow read by Peter Gallagher -
The Sorrows of Gin read by Meryl Streep -
O Youth and Beauty! read by Peter Gallagher -
The Chaste Clarissa read by Blythe Danner -
The Jewels of the Cabots read by George Plimpton -
The Death of Justina read by John Cheever -
The Swimmer read by John Cheever
John Cheever, best known for his short stories dealing with upper-middle-class suburban life, was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. Cheever published his first short story at the age of seventeen. He was the recipient of a 1951 Guggenheim Fellowship and winner of a National Book Award for The Wapshot Chronicle in 1958, the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Stories of John Cheever, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and an American Book Award. He died in 1982, at the age of seventy.
Meryl Streep has been nominated for an Academy Award® thirteen times, winning twice. Her numerous film credits include The Deer Hunter, Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice, Out of Africa, The Bridges of Madison County, Adaptation, and The Hours.
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Audiobook details
Author:
John Cheever
Narrators:
Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher
ISBN:
9780060744021
Length:
6 hours 20 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Caedmon
Publication date:
January 13, 2004
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#11,897 Overall
Genre rank:
#199 in Short Stories