John Cheever
John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome. His short stories included "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer", and he also wrote five novels: The Wapshot Chronicle , The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella, Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982).
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Fall River and other uncollected stories
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2009
The Situation of the Story
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1993
Oh, what a paradise it seems
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1982
The stories of John Cheever
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1978
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Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
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1977
Falconer
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1977
Bullet Park
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1969
Fifty Best American Short Stories
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1965
The Wapshot scandal
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1965
The Wapshot Scandal
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1964
Some people, places, and things that will not appear in my next novel
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1961
Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960
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1960
Understanding fiction -- Second Edition
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1959
The Wapshot Chronicle
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1957
The enormous radio, and other stories
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1953
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow
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1952
The way some people live
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1943
Short Stories from the New Yorker
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1940