![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A companion volume, Complete Novels, gathers Cheever’s five novels in one volume for the first time. Seeking an escape from a troubled marriage, he fell into a series of affairs. Scott Fitzgerald and an account of a visit to Chekhov’s house. Blake Bailey is the author of Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson. At the start of his career, 28-year-old Philip Roth’s personal life was in shambles. Rounding out the volume are essays about writers and writing, including an appreciation of F. Included are masterpieces such as “The Enormous Radio,” “Goodbye, My Brother,” and “The Swimmer,” as well as lesser-known gems. “Many people have written about suburbia,” John Updike observed, “only Cheever was able to make an archetypal place out of it.” Collected Stories and Other Writingscombines the entire Pulitzer Prize–winning collection, The Stories of John Cheever, with seven selections from his first book, The Way Some People Live(1943)-here restored to print-and seven additional stories first published in periodicals between 19. Set in the tony suburbs of Westchester and Connecticut, Cheever’s classic stories charted a country as recognizable and essential to American literature as Faulkner’s or Hawthorne’s. Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey’s groundbreaking new biography, here is the definitive edition of the stories of John Cheever. ![]()
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