John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings (Loa #188)

by John Cheever

Book Overview

John Cheever's stories rank among the finest achievements of twentieth-century short fiction. Ensnared by the trappings of affluence, adrift in the emptiness of American prosperity, his characters find themselves in the midst of dramas that, however comic, pose profound questions about conformity and class, pleasure and propriety, and the conduct and meaning of an individual life. At the same time, the stories reveal their author to be a master whose...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598530348
• ISBN13: 9781598530346
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 1040 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.3" x 8.2"