Books by John Cheever

John Cheever's Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Cheever shows the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the last century.

John Cheever anses for at være en af de store amerikanske forfattere fra det 20. århundrede, og han er især berømmet for sine noveller. Det kom til udtryk, da The Stories of John Cheever, som dette udvalg er hentet fra, ved udgivelsen i 1978 ryddede bordet for alle de store amerikanske litterære priser – Pulitzer-prisen, National Book Award og National Book Critics Circle Award.De fleste af John Cheevers noveller udspiller sig i de amerikanske forstæder, som skød op i den økonomiske optur efter anden verdenskrig som et symbol på den amerikanske middelklassedrøm. Men der gik ikke lang tid, før et kor af litterære stemmer, blandt dem John Cheever, begyndte at reagere på den mentale ensretning, en tilværelse med cocktailparties, swimmingpools og pendlerjob i storbyen avlede. Økonomisk desperation og en grundlæggende eksistentiel ensomhed lurer konstant i baggrunden hos Cheever.

In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to The Wapshot Chronicle, the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS, and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion.A novel of large and tender vision, The Wapshot Scandal is filled with pungent characters and outrageous twists of fate, and, above all, with Cheever's luminous compassion for all his hapless fellow prisoners of human nature.

John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he was a great writer, but one whose acute levels of perception often crippled him as a person.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERSOnce upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAY MCINERNEYJohn Cheever's letters offer a tantalising glimpse into the life of a writer. They include correspondence with his contemporaries, such as Philip Roth, John Updike and Saul Bellow, his days as a young, aspiring writer and his battles with bisexuality and alcoholism.

In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes.

Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New England, The Wapshot Chronicle is a family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James

Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names in Cheever's sharp and funny hymn to the dubious normality of the American suburbs.