PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • SOURCE MATERIAL FOR THE CLASSIC FILM DRAMA THE SWIMMER AND AN INSPIRATION FOR MAD MEN

A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate 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,” these are tales that have helped define the form. Featuring a preface by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, The Stories of John Cheever brings together some of the finest short stories ever written. When this volume was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has become a classic.

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."

"Cheever’s crowning achievement is the ability to be simultaneously generous and cynical, to see that the absurd and the profound can reside in the same moment, and to acknowledge both at the detriment of neither." —The Guardian

John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He was the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 The Stories of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; Reprint edition (May 16, 2000)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 704 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0375724427
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0375724428
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.16 x 1.12 x 8 inches