The Swimmer

The Swimmer

by John Cheever
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 20/03/2021

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Here is the preface to 12 magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates - with unequaled grace and tenderness - the deepest feelings we have.


As Cheever writes in his preface, "These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat

ISBN:
1230004638766
1230004638766
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
20-03-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
New writing
John Cheever

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.

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