Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever

by John Cheever

Book Overview

This is the first new collection of John Cheever stories in more than fifteen years, and the first time these stories have ever been collected. Originally published in the 1930s and 1940s in magazines... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897334051
• ISBN13: 9780897334051
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating early Cheever

Except for the first two, all of the stories in this collection are excellent! I had a great time reading them. My favorite is the sad "Bayonne", and the riotously funny "The Opportunity". There are hints of Cheever's celebrated prose style, but all of these stories are marvelously constructed narratives. The book itself is okay. Except for the hideous yellow of the jacket and more than a few typesetting and editorial factual errors, it is a very handsomely bound book with good paper and large, readable type. However, it's hard to justify twenty dollars for a 200 page book that's physically the size of a paperback novel.