The Stories of John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever

First edition
Author John Cheever
Country United States
Language English
Genre Short story collection
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date
1978
Media type Print (hardback & paperback)

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][lower-alpha 1]

Stories included in the collection

Notes

  1. Cheever's Stories won the 1981 award for paperback Fiction.
    From 1980 to 1983 in National Book Awards history there were dual hardcover and paperback awards in most categories. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints, including this one.

References

  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.
Awards
Preceded by
Sophie's Choice
William Styron
National Book Award for Fiction
1981
With:
Plains Song: For Female Voices
Wright Morris
Succeeded by
Rabbit is Rich
John Updike
Preceded by
The World According to Garp
John Irving
Succeeded by
So Long, See You Tomorrow
William Maxwell


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