The Washington Post, May 2nd, 2004
John Cheever, the great American master of the short story, also wrote five novels. The longer form brought out Cheever's tendency to meander, but in his two best novels -- The Wapshot Chronicle and Falconer -- he kept his febrile inventiveness under control. He had gotten off to an early start as a writer, publishing a short story in the New Republic at age 18. He wrote more stories, collected them in The Way Some People Live (1943), then took stock and started over. Nothing published before 1947 made it into his 1978 omnibus, The Stories of John Cheever. And The Wapshot Chronicle, his first ...
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