The Stories of John Cheever

Summary

A career-spanning gathering of sixty-one stories that map the cocktail parties, commuter trains, and quiet desperations of mid-century suburban life in New York and New England. Cheever's voice moves easily from social comedy to near-mythic strangeness, finding moral weight in swimming pools, train platforms, and adulterous afternoons. The volume is considered one of the great single-author short-fiction collections in American literature.