In this fabulous short story, the crown jewel of John Cheever’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Stories of John Cheever, a man agonizes about class privilege and racism, confessing to the knowledge of a terrible crime and exposing a quiet American family’s darkest secrets.
Wandering about the sleepy Connecticut town of his childhood, where residents lead lives of grueling boredom, a journalist reminisces about the Cabot children: Molly, a sweet girl and his first love; Geneva who pilfered her mother’s diamonds from the clothesline and ran off to the Middle East; Wallace, Mr. Cabot’s bastard son who lives in the tenements across the river; and the dwarf, Mrs. Cabot’s child from an earlier marriage.
An ebook short. A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection.
Praise for John Cheever and The Stories of John Cheever:
"John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice…is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature." —Philip Roth
"As stories go, as compellingly readable narratives of a certain sort of people in a certain time and place—our time and place—John Cheever's stories are, simply, the best." —The Washington Post
"Profound and daring...some of the most wonderful stories any American has written." —The Boston Globe
"Not merely the publishing event of the 'season' but a grand occasion in English literature." —The New York Times
John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. 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 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.
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In this fabulous short story, the crown jewel of John Cheever’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Stories of John Cheever, a man agonizes about class privilege and racism, confessing to the knowledge of a terrible crime and exposing a quiet American family’s darkest secrets.
Wandering about the sleepy Connecticut town of his childhood, where residents lead lives of grueling boredom, a journalist reminisces about the Cabot children: Molly, a sweet girl and his first love; Geneva who pilfered her mother’s diamonds from the clothesline and ran off to the Middle East; Wallace, Mr. Cabot’s bastard son who lives in the tenements across the river; and the dwarf, Mrs. Cabot’s child from an earlier marriage.
An ebook short. A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection.
Reviews
Praise for John Cheever and The Stories of John Cheever:
"John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice…is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature." —Philip Roth
"As stories go, as compellingly readable narratives of a certain sort of people in a certain time and place—our time and place—John Cheever's stories are, simply, the best." —The Washington Post
"Profound and daring...some of the most wonderful stories any American has written." —The Boston Globe
"Not merely the publishing event of the 'season' but a grand occasion in English literature." —The New York Times
Author
John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. 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 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.
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