WhenThe Stories of John Cheeverwas 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 Shady Hill" and "The Swimmer," Cheever tells us everything we need to know about "the pain and sweetness of life." From the Trade Paperback edition. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

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 17, and in 1979, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his collected edition of short stories, titled Stories of John Cheever.

Cheever also wrote screenplays, and five novels, including The Wapshot Chronicle, which won the National Book Award in 1957.

Cheever died in 1982, at the age of 70.

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Preface	p. vii
Goodbye, My Brother	p. 3
The Common Day	p. 22
The Enormous Radio	p. 33
O City of Broken Dreams	p. 42
The Hartleys	p. 58
The Sutton Place Story	p. 65
The Summer Farmer	p. 79
Torch Song	p. 89
The Pot of Gold	p. 103
Clancy in the Tower of Babel	p. 118
Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor	p. 128
The Season of Divorce	p. 137
The Chaste Clarissa	p. 147
The Cure	p. 156
The Superintendent	p. 165
The Children	p. 178
The Sorrows of Gin	p. 198
O Youth and Beauty!	p. 210
The Day the Pig Fell into the Well	p. 219
The Five-Forty-Eight	p. 236
Just One More Time	p. 248
The Housebreaker of Shady Hill	p. 253
The Bus to St. James's	p. 270
The Worm in the Apple	p. 285
The Trouble of Marcie Flint	p. 289
The Bella Lingua	p. 302
The Wrysons	p. 319
The Country Husband	p. 325
The Duchess	p. 347
The Scarlet Moving Van	p. 359
Just Tell Me Who It Was	p. 370
Brimmer	p. 386
The Golden Age	p. 396
The Lowboy	p. 404
The Music Teacher	p. 413
A Woman Without a Country	p. 423
The Death of Justina	p. 429
Clementina	p. 438
Boy in Rome	p. 452
A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear	p. 467
The Chimera	p. 473
The Seaside Houses	p. 482
The Angel of the Bridge	p. 490
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow	p. 498
A Vision of the World	p. 512
Reunion	p. 518
An Educated American Woman	p. 521
Metamorphoses	p. 536
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin	p. 554
Montraldo	p. 561
The Ocean	p. 567
Marito in Citta	p. 584
The Geometry of Love	p. 594
The Swimmer	p. 603
The World of Apples	p. 613
Another Story	p. 624
Percy	p. 634
The Fourth Alarm	p. 645
Artemis, the Honest Well Digger	p. 650
Three Stories	p. 672
The Jewels of the Cabots	p. 681

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