The Stories of John Cheever

Overview:

  • Title: The Stories of John Cheever
  • Author: John Cheever
  • Year: 1982
  • ISBN-10: 0345284364
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • Price: $3.50
  • Pages: xii+819
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The Enormous Radio
  • Notes:
    • Copyright page: "Third edition: July 1982"
    • Quite a few of Cheever's stories contain at least a slight element of the surreal or magical. I have listed some of those in the contents below, but there are likely to be others that I haven't identified. For reference, the remaining stories in this volume are:
      • 1 • Goodbye, My Brother • novelette
      • 23 • The Common Day • ss
      • 48 • O City of Broken Dreams
      • 67 • The Hartleys • ss
      • 76 • The Sutton Place Story • ss
      • 93 • The Summer Farmer • ss
      • 122 • The Pot of Gold • ss
      • 139 • Clancy in the Tower of Babel • ss
      • 151 • Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor • ss
      • 161 • The Season of Divorce • ss
      • 172 • The Chaste Clarissa • ss
      • 183 • The Cure • ss
      • 194 • The Superintendent • ss
      • 209 • The Children • ss
      • 234 • The Sorrows of Gin • ss
      • 249 • O Youth and Beauty! • ss
      • 259 • The Day the Pig Fell Into the Well • novelette
      • 280 • The Five-Forty-Eight • ss
      • 294 • Just One More Time • ss
      • 300 • The Housebreaker of Shady Hill
      • 320 • The Bus to St. James's • ss
      • 338 • The Worm in the Apple • ss
      • 342 • The Trouble of Marcie Flint • ss
      • 358 • The Bella Lingua
      • 378 • The Wrysons • ss
      • 410 • The Duchess • ss
      • 425 • The Scarlet Moving Van • ss
      • 437 • Just Tell Me Who It Was • ss
      • 456 • Brimmer • ss
      • 468 • The Golden Age • ss
      • 477 • The Lowboy • ss
      • 499 • A Woman Without a Country • ss
      • 516 • Clementine • ss
      • 533 • Boy in Rome • ss
      • 551 • A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear • ss
      • 568 • The Seaside Houses • ss
      • 578 • The Angel of the Bridge • ss
      • 588 • The Brigadier and the Golf Widow • ss
      • 611 • Reunion • ss
      • 614 • An Educated American Woman • ss
      • 662 • Montraldo • ss
      • 669 • The Ocean • ss
      • 690 • Marito in Città • ss
      • 702 • The Geometry of Love • ss
      • 725 • The World of Apples • ss
      • 737 • Another Story • ss
      • 750 • Percy • ss
      • 762 • The Fourth Alarm • ss
      • 768 • Artemis, the Honest Well Digger • ss
      • 793 • Three Stories • ss
      • 804 • The Jewels of the Cabots • ss