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The Stories of John Cheever
First edition
AuthorJohn Cheever
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort story collection
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
1978
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages693
ISBN0-394-50087-3

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 Swimmer". It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979 and its first paperback edition won a 1981 National Book Award.[1][a]

  1. ^ "National Book Awards – 1981". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-14
    (with essays by Willie Perdomo, Matthew Pitt, and Robert Wilder from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog).


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