Best John Cheever Stories - April 2024

The Stories of John Cheever

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWhen The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize.  In the years since, it has become a classic.  Vintage Books is proud to reintroduce this magnificent collection.Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle 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 S... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375724427
• ASIN: 0375724427
• ISBN: 0375724427
• Brand: Vintage Books USA
• Manufacturer: Vintage

John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings (Library of America, No. 188)

John Cheever’s stories rank among the finest achievements of twentieth-century short fiction. Ensnared by the trappings of affluence, adrift in the emptiness of American prosperity, his characters find themselves in the midst of dramas that, however comic, pose profound questions about conformity and class, pleasure and propriety, and the conduct and meaning of an individual life. At the same time, the stories reveal their author to be a master whose prose is at once precise and sensuous, in which a shrewd eye for social detail is paired with a lyric sensitivity to the world at large. “The... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598530348
• ASIN: 1598530348
• ISBN: 9781598530346
• Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest He... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0395843677
• UPC: 046442843676
• ASIN: 0395843677
• ISBN: 0395843677
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

John Cheever: Complete Novels

Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey?s groundbreaking new biography, here are the five novels of John Cheever, together in one volume for the first time. In these dazzling works Cheever laid bare the failings and foibles of not just the ascendant postwar elite but also the fallen Yankee aristocrats who stubbornly? and often grotesquely and hilariously?cling to their shabby gentility as the last vestige of former glory. Complete Novels gathers: the riotous family saga The Wapshot Chronicle (winner of the National Book Award) and its sequel The Wapshot Scandal (winner of the William De... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598530356
• ASIN: 1598530356
• ISBN: 1598530356
• Brand: Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

The Collected Works of John Cheever: A Library of America Boxed Set

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 Will... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598531638
• ASIN: 1598531638
• ISBN: 1598531638
• Manufacturer: Library of America

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)

The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls “all its wildnesses of characte... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547485859
• ASIN: 0547485859
• ISBN: 0547485859
• Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Stories of John Cheever

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• ASIN: B00LMGDT68
• ASIN: B00LMGDT68
• ISBN: 0345284364
• Manufacturer: Ballantine

Ten North Frederick (Penguin Classics)

The National Book Award–winning novel by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz called “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald”Joe Chapin led a storybook life. A successful small-town lawyer with a beautiful wife, two over-achieving children, and aspirations to be president, he seemed to have it all. But as his daughter looks back on his life, a different man emerges: one in conflict with his ambitious and shrewish wife, terrified that the misdeeds of his children will dash his political dreams, and in love with a model half his age. With black wit and penetrating insight, Ten North Frederick stands with R... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143107100
• ASIN: 0143107100
• ISBN: 0143107100
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

American Short Story Masterpieces (Dover Thrift Editions)

As variegated as the American experience itself, this original treasury reflects the vibrant role of the short story in our national literature. Fourteen outstanding tales by famous American authors unfold in settings ranging from the decaying family mansion of Edgar Allan Poe's dark psychological thriller, "The Fall of the House of Usher," to the bustling modern apartment building of John Cheever's domestic drama, "The Enormous Radio." Moods and attitudes shift from the simmering menace of a lynch mob in William Faulkner's "Dry September" to the gentle optimism of an elderly couple in Ring La... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486499138
• UPC: 800759499137
• ASIN: 0486499138
• ISBN: 0486499138
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Bad Behavior: Stories

A trade paperback reissue of National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s debut collection, Bad Behavior—powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is searching for human connection. • Now a classic: Bad Behavior made critical waves when it first published, heralding Gaitskill’s arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as one of the sharpest, erotically charged, and audaciously funny writing talents of contemporary literature. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it “Pinteresque... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1439148872
• ASIN: 1439148872
• ISBN: 1439148872
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease sufferers. In its two and a half centuries of service, there was hardly an epidemic or social catastrophe—or groundbreaking scientific advance—that did not touch Bellevue.     David Oshinsky, whose last book, Polio: An... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307386716
• ASIN: 0307386716
• ISBN: 0307386716
• Brand: Anchor
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Avid Reader: A Life

A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his timeAfter editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and edited Catch-22 and The American Way of Death, among other bestsellers. At Knopf, Gottlieb edited an astonishing list of authors, including Toni Morrison, John Cheever, Doris Lessing, John le Carré, Michael Crichton, Lauren Bacall, Kat... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374279926
• ASIN: 0374279926
• ISBN: 0374279926
• Brand: Farrar Straus and Giroux
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)

“I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius, I think it brilliant, splendid, etc. If there is literature (and this proves there is) this is where it’s at.” –John CheeverA Penguin ClassicSaul Bellow’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores the long friendship between Charlie Citrine, a young man with an intense passion for literature, and the great poet Von Humboldt Dleisher. At the time of Humboldt’s death, Charlie’s life is falling apart: his career is at a standstill, and he’s enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143105477
• ASIN: 0143105477
• ISBN: 0143105477
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

• ASIN: B00XST7LK2
• ASIN: B00XST7LK2
• Manufacturer: Vintage

See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary

A New York Times Critic's Top Pick of the YearThis essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection shows one of our greatest writers parsing the political, artistic, and media landscape of the past three decades. These sixty-six essays and reviews, culled from the pages of The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, among others, find Lorrie Moore turning her discerning eye on everything from Philip Roth to Margaret Atwood, from race in America to the shocking state of the GOP, from celebrity culture to the wilds of television, from Ste... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524732486
• ASIN: 1524732486
• ISBN: 1524732486
• Manufacturer: Knopf

The Stories of John Cheever

Collects Cheever's short fiction, including "The Swimmer," "The Enormous Radio," "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill," and fifty-eight other stories that explore many dark issues of America following World War

• UPC: 753928
• Rating: 4.5

The Dead Rabbit Mixology & Mayhem : The Story of John Morrissey and the World’s Best Cocktail Menu

A groundbreaking graphic novel-style cocktail book from world-renowned bar The Dead Rabbit in New York

• UPC: 650859436

Stories We Could Tell: The Very Best Of John Sebastian

2017 collection. As the leader of The Lovin Spoonful, John Sebastian was responsible for a string of hits including, quot;Do You Believe in Magic,quot; and quot;Summer in the City.quot; This best of his solo years,

• UPC: 931406734

The Making of a Navy SEAL : My Story of Surviving the Toughest Challenge and Training the Best

BEFORE HE COULD FORGE A BAND OF ELITE WARRIORS... HE HAD TO BECOME ONE HIMSELF.Adapted from Webb's Adult Bestseller The Red Circle for a Young Adult AudienceBrandon Webb's experiences in the world's most elite sniper

• UPC: 55861899
• Rating: 3.5

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

A collection of fifty-five important pieces of short fiction of the twentieth century features masterworks by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, and other notable

• UPC: 743425
• Rating: 3.75

Forever Rumpole : The Best of the Rumpole Stories

Mortimer--author of more than 80 Rumpole short stories--will never be forgotten. His stories featuring the cigar-chomping, cheap-wine-tippling Rumpole and his wife, Hilda have justly earned their place in the mystery pantheon, becoming the basis for

• UPC: 19895552
• Rating: 5.0

Black American Short Stories : A Century of the Best

Features pieces by Charles W. Chestnut, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, and

• UPC: 465452
• Rating: 5.0

Best British Short Stories 2016 - eBook

The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new

• UPC: 491388602
• Rating: 4.0

Fall River and Other Uncollected Stories

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

• UPC: 11560464
• Rating: 3.0

The Making of a Navy SEAL : My Story of Surviving the Toughest Challenge and Training the Best

An introduction to the elite military sniper program through the personal experiences of a covert operations specialist describes its requirements, what inspired the author to become a SEAL, and his work as a trainer of

• UPC: 45142475
• Rating: 3.5