Bücher von John Cheever

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWhen The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize.In the years since, it has become a classic.Vintage Books is proud to reintroduce this magnificent collection.Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "e;the greatest generation."e;From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "e;The Enormous Radio"e; to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in "e;The Housebreaker of Shady Hill"e; and "e;The Swimmer,"e; Cheever tells us everything we need to know about "e;the pain and sweetness of life."e;

In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to The Wapshot Chronicle, the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS, and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion.A novel of large and tender vision, The Wapshot Scandal is filled with pungent characters and outrageous twists of fate, and, above all, with Cheever's luminous compassion for all his hapless fellow prisoners of human nature.