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| Name: |
John Cheever | | Birth Date: |
May 27, 1912 | | Death Date: |
June 18, 1982 | | Place of Birth: |
Quincy, Massachusetts, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, author |
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 Biography of John Cheever
1068 words, approx. 3.6 pages
 John Cheever (1912-1982) was an American writer known for his keen, often critical, view of the American middle class. Known primarily for his short stories, his attention to detail and careful writing found the extraordinary in the ordinary. I have been... summary from source:
 Biography of John Cheever
10311 words, approx. 34.4 pages
 Few American writers have been so clear in mapping their recurrent subject matter and themes as John Cheever. From his first published story, "Expelled," he has been concerned with the Fall from a condition of Edenic childlike innocence into the painful... summary from source:
Biography of John Cheever
9669 words, approx. 32.2 pages
To outward appearances John Cheever was very much a child of the American twentieth century. Born just before World War I, he lived through the halcyon Jazz Age, suffered through the Depression, and served as a noncombatant in the army during World War I...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Stories of John Cheever Information
366 words, approx. 1 pages
The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The...
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 The Boston Globe The Mystery Of John Cheever
02/03/1988: 555 words, approx. 2 pages CONVERSATIONS WITH JOHN CHEEVER, edited by Scott Donaldson. University Press of Mississippi. 259 pp. $24.95 ($14.95, paperback). John Cheever remains among the most mysterious of American writers. Since his death in 1982, disclosures about his bisexuality, tousled family life and alcoholism have... summary from source:
The Washington Post John Cheever and the Unforgotten Wish
08/08/1988: 1,198 words, approx. 4 pages If you've been sitting around all summer awaiting "The Uncollected Stories of John Cheever"-an unlikely thought to be sure, but people get their jollies in strange ways-then you'd just as well get off the pins and needles. An injunction against publication of the book...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by John N. Swift
1,360 words, approx. 5 pages
[The size of The Stories of John Cheever]—sixty-one stories, seven hundred pages—necessarily obscures the excellences of individual pieces, as their edges run together; Cheever's obsessively adulterous suburbanites and alcoholic expatriates eventually parody one another, and the complexities of their descriptions are levelled by repetition. On the other hand—and this is true of any writer's collected works—as our attention strays from the plots and characters, it fa... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Pearl K. Bell
513 words, approx. 2 pages
[The tales collected in The Stories of John Cheever are] awash in the rain of disenchantment and regret, rank with the smell of decay. Though Cheever tried, in his two Wapshot novels, to broaden his scope by endowing the poignancy of nostalgia with a local habitation and name—to portray a vanished New England blessed with social coherence, domestic stability, and moral grace—the quality of his yearning comes through with much greater power in his short stories. His temperament and talent are n... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Michael Mason
342 words, approx. 1 pages
There are occasional touches of self-importance in [The Stories of John Cheever], but the author has always been very much on his guard against their recurrence and so—being tremendously gifted—he has reaped the true, substantial rewards of lightness. Not disabled by high-mindedness about content or form, his stories have made a brilliant and serious contribution to the genre…. The particular brand of self-importance Cheever had to resist in the early stories was moralistic. Crudely spe...
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