Book description
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHI
This outstanding collection by Pulitzer prize-winning novelist John
Cheever show the power and range of one of the finest short story
writers of the last century. Stories of love and of squalor, they
include masterpieces such as 'The Swimmer' and 'Goodbye, My Brother'
and date from the time of his honourable discharge from the Army at
the end of the Second World War.
John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912, and he went
to school at Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He is 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 he 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.
