New Releases by JOHN CHEEVER

In his finely wrought novels and short stories, John Cheever created men and women, young and old, suburbanites and city dwellers, all of whom, whether they reside in St. Botolphs or Bullet Park or mid-century Manhattan or some other mythic place, are all recognizable as citizens of Cheever country. Vintage Cheever contains an essential selection of the master’s short stories and selections from the novels The Wapshot Chronicle, Bullet Park, Falconer and Oh What a Paradise It Seems. Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions. From the Trade Paperback edition.

À Bullet Park, l''une des banlieues aisées où John Cheever aime à situer ses intrigues, vit la famille Nailles, qui semble incarner lé rêve américain. Et pourtant... le jeune Tony ressent une tristesse qui le cloue au lit, sa mère semble irrémédiablement détachée des réalités de l''existence, et Nailles éprouve une telle phobie des trains qu''il doit absorber des tranquillisants pour se rendre au bureau. S''installe à Bullet Park un certain Paul Hammer, profondément inadapté, qui s''est enfin trouvé une raison de vivre : crucifier le rêve américain et son incarnation dans l''homme d''affaires. Le marteau et le clou étant irrémédiablement destinés à se rencontrer, c''est au sein de la famille Nailles qu''il trouvera sa victime... Les Lumières de Bullet Park est un texte tout à la fois sombre et irrésistiblement drôle, un roman " existentialiste " avant l''heure, qui traite de la dislocation morale de la seconde moitié du XXè siècle, mais également de la fêlure des valeurs et croyances américaines.

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 which run the gamut from obscure leftist literary periodicals, through The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly, to mass circulation glossies like Colliers and Cosmopolitan, these stories deal with themes and use techniques which are not generally considered to be "Cheeveresque". They will undoubtedly surprise those readers familiar only with Cheever''s post-1947 work. Each of these early stories bears the unmistakable stamp of the master storyteller. "Bayonne" is an evocative character study of a waitress whose work serving blue-collar regulars in a diner provides her with more emotional than financial support. "In Passing", which ends with the radical organizer Girsdansky haranguing a small unmoved crowd on the Boston Common at twilight, reveals perhaps more about states of mind during the Depression than standard histories of that era. "Fall River" is an elegy on economic catastrophe in a backwater New England town: Cheever calls up a picture of a wasteland with abandoned factories where "the looms blocked off the floor like discarded machinery in an old opera house". "The Autobiography of a Drummer" is a remarkable portrait of a man who has outlived his time. It anticipates Arthur Miller''s Willy Loman by more than a decade. In this intriguing collection, Cheever plunges us into a stark world; the scenes are reminiscent of Edward Hopper. It is a world of foreclosures, down-and-outs, burlesque shows, desperate gamblers, and deferred hopes. It adds a new dimension to the assessment ofJohn Cheever''s considerable reputation.

Letters written by Cheever to John and Harriet Weaver during the four decades he battled with alcohol, publishers, editors, and landlords.

From one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers, this “luminous ephiphany of life ... [is] a charming fable of old age, nostalgia, and loss” (The Washington Post Book World). Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever''s final novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man, Lemuel Sears, who still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears''s paradise is threatened; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters. In Cheever''s accomplished hands the battle between an elderly romantic and the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilization becomes something ribald, poignant, and ineffably joyful. "This is perfect Cheever—it is perfect." —The New York Times Book Review

Interviews with the late novelist share his veiws on writing, literary fame, his major works, criticism, and his life and career.

A married couple''s new radio tunes into the private lives of everybody else in their New York City apartment building.

A collection of humorous stories by the American writer focusing on the volume, inhibitions, and dreams of man.

John Cheever narra a trajetória dos Wapshot, típica família de classe média da Nova Inglaterra, cuja decadência se mistura à da própria cidadezinha em que se passa o romance, St. Botolphs. Leander Wapshot (que o leitor fica conhecendo a partir da cômica d

A beautiful duchess, a lush, a pretty girl at the Princeton-Dartmouth rugby game, a lowboy, a hill town and a mountain pass are a few of the people, places, and things that Mr. Cheever hopes to exorcise from his subsequent work by describing their lives, their triumphs and shortcomings.

Short stories reflecting the manners and mores of the country club set.