The Stories of John Cheever
Author: John Cheever
“These stories,” writes Cheever in the preface to this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of 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 stationary store, and when almost everybody wore a hat. Here is the last of that generation….Read More
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