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Selected and Introduced by Booker-Prize winner Julian Barnes 'Reading Cheever is a restless pleasure, the work never settles- these brilliant stories make me get up and walk around the room' Anne Enright John Cheever - the 'Chekhov of the suburbs' - forever altered the landscape of contemporary literature. In a career that spanned nearly fifty years, his short stories, often published in the New Yorker, gave voice to the repressed desires and smouldering disappointments of 1950s America as it teetered on the edge of spiritual awakening and sexual liberation in the ensuing decades. Selected for the first time, these satirical, fantastical, sad and transcendent stories show Cheever in all his brilliance and continue to speak directly to the heart of human experience. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

John Cheever understood fallibility and that made for the greatness in his writing The Times

Die Geschichte der Wapshots geht weiter: Die Familie verlässt das idyllische St. Botolphs und wird mit der modernen Welt konfrontiert. Inmitten von Raketenbasen und Supermärkten erleben sie tragisch-komische Herausforderungen. Ein großer Klassiker des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Lemuel Sears mène une existence paisible à Manhattan. Conscient de son vieillissement, il vit dans la crainte de ne plus connaître l'amour avant de disparaître. Un jour, il se rend dans la petite ville de Janice pour patiner sur l'étang, et découvre que celui-ci est utilisé comme dépotoir. Révolté, il décide de tout mettre en oeuvre pour rendre à Janice son paysage bucolique. Amené à côtoyer les riverains, il rencontrera certaines figures du crime organisé, des politiciens véreux ainsi que quelques bonnes âmes prêtes à t'aider qui utilisent pour ce faire des méthodes pour le moins radicales... Parmi ces personnes, Sears fera la connaissance d'une jeune femme dont il tombera amoureux. On dirait vraiment le paradis, paru aux États-Unis en 1982, inédit en français, est le dernier roman de John Cheever. On y retrouve l'élégance de son style, l'humour omniprésent et l'immense tendresse qu'il porte à ses personnages.

Marcie und Charles Flint führen ein glückliches Leben in Shady Hill, bis eine Ameise in Charles' Martini auftaucht. Ein Unglück mit Gift gefährdet ihre Kinder, was Marcie dazu bringt, ihrem Mann ein entscheidendes Geheimnis zu offenbaren.

Inhalt: Das grauenvolle Radio -- Der Schwimmer -- Der Einbrecher von Shady Hill -- Im Schatten der Ginflasche. Kleines Taschenbuch: 14,5 x 9 cm

Es sind die Stories, die John Cheever zu einem der wichtigsten Autoren der amerikanischen Literatur gemacht haben. Von der internationalen Literaturkritik gepriesen, wurde er zum von Autorenkollegen verehrten Vorbild. In diesen Kurzgeschichten entfaltet sich all seine Meisterschaft. Lakonisch, präzise, skurril und witzig liefern sie ein Porträt einer Zeit und zugleich die ganze Comédie humaine.

John Cheever wurde 1912 als Sohn eines Kaufmanns in Quincy/Massachusetts geboren. Er besuchte die Thayer Academy in South Braintree. Er zog nach Boston, wo sein langwieriger Weg zum Schriftsteller begann - der Durchbruch gelang ihm mit seinen Short Stories. Für sein Gesamtwerk erhielt er 1979 den Pulitzer-Preis. John Cheever starb 1982.

The American writer, John Cheever, died in 1982, leaving behind 29 loose-leaf notebooks begun in the late Forties. They form the content of this book. His commitment to them was of central importance to his life - as a workbook and a retreat, an unhindered act of self-revelation where he could explore his ambiguities. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he hated himself for his drinking, but for much of his life was dependent upon it; he was a great writer, but one whose acute levels of perception often crippled him as a person.

This stunning collection of 28 stories brings readers a literary portrait of the American family from 1894 to today. A collection of works that captures the essence of American families from living together and apart to loving and letting go.Regret / Kate Chopin --The lombardy poplar / Mary Wilkins Freeman --The widow's might / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --Old Rogaum and his Theresa / Theodore Dreiser --The sorrows of gin / John Cheever --I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen --Simple and Counsin F.D. Roosevelt Brown / Langston Hughes --The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines --My Coney Island uncle / Harvey Swados --My son the murderer / Bernard Malamud --Final dwarf / Henry Roth --And Sarah laughed / Joanne Greenberg --Wedding day / Roberta Silman --The legacy of Beau Kremel / Stephen Wolf --Kiswana Brown / Gloria Naylor --Tuesdays / Mary Hedin --Afloat / Ann Beattie --Winterblossom garden / David Low --Old things / Bobbie Ann Mason --Starlight / Marian Thurm --The writer in the family / E.L. Doctorow --The rich brother / Tobias Wolff --My legacy / Don Zacharia --Violation / Mary Gordon --Appropriate affect / Sue Miller --What I did for love / Lynne Sharon Schwartz --Still of some use / John Updike --Elephant / Raymond Carver

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him back into childhood. Only John Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.

Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New England, The Wapshot Chronicle is a stirring family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James

Román amerického autora, plný humoru a dráždivého šarmu. Sleduje príbehy a kuriózne názory svojich postáv a najmä psychiku manželov Sáry a Leandra Wapshotovcov a ich zápas o zachovanie dôstojnosti starého novoanglického rodu. Dozviete sa veľa o citovom a erotickom dozrievaní pána Leandra, o jeho mravných aj nemravných činoch. Taktiež autor ponúka historky zo života stredných vrstiev v mestečku Sv.Botolps, historky, ktoré ako mozaika vytvárajú obraz o citovom bohatstve a názorovom svete malomestských ľudí na západ od Bostonu.

These stories from the pen of American award-winning novelist John Cheever show the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the century.

Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him back into childhood. Only John Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.

Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names in Cheever's sharp and funny hymn to the dubious normality of the American suburbs.

První román amerického spisovatele (do té doby povídkáře), v němž se na představitelích tří generací jedné americké rodiny zachycuje život od počátku tohoto století až po naše dny. V knize je takto zachycena mizící Amerika MarkaTwaina a figurek Thurberových v groteskní konfrontaci s atomovou základnou, výpočtovými středisky, raketami startujícími do vesmíru a zákulisím newyorských snack barů. Zábavná kronika tří generací s celou škálou výborně viděných lidských typů.