Collected stories and other writings
(2009)
By:
Cheever, John
Fiction
Book
Series:
Library of America
#188
Call Numbers:
FICTION/CHEEVER,J/SC
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Library of America, 2009
DESCRIPTION
xi, 1040 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781598530346, 1598530348
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
Library of America #188
NOTES
"Blake Bailey wrote the chronology and notes for this volume."
CONTENTS
Goodbye, my brother --
Common day --
Enormous radio --
O city of broken dreams --
Hartleys --
Sutton Place story --
Summer farmer --
Torch song --
Pot of gold --
Clancy in the Tower of Babel --
Christmas is a sad season for the poor --
Season of divorce --
Chaste Clarissa --
Cure --
Superintendent --
Children --
Sorrows of gin --
O youth and beauty! --
Day the pig fell into the well --
Five-forty-eight --
Just one more time --
Housebreaker of Shady Hill --
Bus to St. James's --
Worm in the apple --
Trouble of Marcie Flint --
Bella lingua --
Wrysons --
Country husband --
Duchess --
Scarlet moving van --
Just tell me who it was --
Brimmer --
Golden age --
Lowboy --
Music teacher --
A woman without a country --
Death of Justina --
Clementina --
Boy in Rome --
A miscellany of characters that will not appear --
Chimera --
Seaside houses --
Angel of the bridge --
Brigadier and the golf widow --
A vision of the world --
Reunion --
An educated American woman --
Metamorphoses --
Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin --
Montraldo --
Ocean --
Marito in città --
Geometry of love --
Swimmer --
World of apples --
Another story --
Percy --
Fourth alarm --
Artemis, the honest well-digger --
Three stories --
Jewels of the Cabots --
Summer theatre --
Forever hold your peace --
Of love: a testimony --
Brothers --
Publick house --
When grandmother goes --
These tragic years --
Expelled --
Autobiography of a drummer --
In passing --
Play a march --
Town house --
Roseheath --
National pastime --
What happened --
Moving out --
F. Scott Fitzgerald --
Melancholy of distance --
On Saul Bellow --
Why I write short stories --
My friend, Malcolm Cowley