ISBN:

• 9781598530346
• 1598530348

Description: xi, 1040 pages ; 21 cm.

Other Title: Works. Selections. 2009

Contents:

• The stories of John Cheever. Preface
• Goodbye, my brother
• The common day
• The enormous radio
• O city of broken dreams
• The Hartleys
• The Sutton place story
• The summer farmer
• Torch song
• The pot of gold
• Clancy in the Tower of Babel
• Christmas is a sad season for the poor
• The season of divorce
• The chaste Clarissa
• The cure
• The superintendent
• The children
• The sorrows of gin
• O youth and beauty!
• The day the pig fell into the well
• The five-forty-eight
• Just one more time
• The housebreaker of Shady Hill
• The bus to St. James's
• The worm in the apple
• The trouble of Marcie Flint
• The bella lingua
• The Wrysons
• The country husband
• The duchess
• The scarlet moving van
• Just tell me who it was
• Brimmer
• The golden age
• The lowboy
• The music teacher
• A woman without a country
• The death of Justina
• Clementina
• Boy in Rome
• A miscellany of characters that will not appear
• The chimera
• The seaside houses
• The angel of the bridge
• The brigadier and the golf widow
• A vision of the world
• Reunion
• An educated American woman
• Metamorphoses
• Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin
• Montraldo
• The ocean
• Marito in Cittáa
• The geometry of love
• The swimmer
• The world of apples
• Another story
• Percy
• The fourth alarm
• Artemis, the honest well-digger
• Three stories
• The jewels of the Cabots.

• from The way some people live. Summer theatre
• Forever hold your peace
• Of love : a testimony
• The brothers
• Publick house
• When Grandmother goes
• The tragic years.

• Other stories. Expelled
• The autobiography of a drummer
• In passing
• Play a march
• Town house
• Roseheath
• The national pastime.

• Other writings. What happened
• Moving out
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The melancholy of distance
• On Saul Bellow
• Why I write short stories
• My friend, Malcolm Cowley.

LCCN: 2008935565

Control Number: 893586

Series:

• Library of America
• Library of America ; 188
• Library of America ; 188.

Subjects: Short stories, American.

Genre: Fiction.