Fall River and Other Uncollected Stories - Softcover

Cheever, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0897335961 ISBN 13: 9780897335966

Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

The stories in this collection are ones that Cheever wrote in the 1930s and 1940s. There are 13 total, 11 of which are not available anywhere else, including the new Library of America edition. Interest in Cheever's work has been renewed with the publication of a new biography, John Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey. Readers of Cheever, both new and old, will be fascinated by this essential collection.

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Book Description

When this book was originally issued in 1994, it was the first new collection of Cheever stories in over 15 years. Now, with a comprehensive new biography recently published, and the writings of Cheever brought into the canon of the respected Library of America, here is a key collection of 13 early stories from the 1930s and 1940s, 11 of which cannot be found anywhere else. 

In this intriguing collection, Cheever plunges us into a stark world of strike-breaking, down-and-outers, burlesque shows, desperate gamblers, and deferred hopes. Called "the best kept secret of American letters" and a "virtual literary treasure trove," these stories add a new dimension to the assessment of John Cheever's considerable reputation.

Cheever published these stories in magazines which ran the gamut from obscure leftist literary periodicals, through The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly, to mass circulation glossies like Colliers and Cosmopolitan, dealing with themes and using techniques which are not generally considered to be "Cheeveresque." They will undoubtedly surprise those readers familiar with his 1950s work. Each of these early stories bears the unmistakable stamp of the master storyteller. 

About the Author

John Cheever, best known for his short stories dealing with upper-middle-class suburban life, was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. Cheever published his first short story at the age of seventeen. He was the recipient of a 1951 Guggenheim Fellowship and winner of a National Book Award for The Wapshot Chronicle in 1958, the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Stories of John Cheever, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and an American Book Award. He died in 1982, at the age of seventy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0897335961
• ISBN 13: 9780897335966
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 227
• Editor: Dennis Franklin H.