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    Preface
    Preface
    Preface
    Audiobook6 minutes

    Preface

    Written by John Cheever

    Narrated by Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever and Peter Gallagher

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    About this audiobook

    Here is the preface to the twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.

    As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.""

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCaedmon
    Release dateSep 22, 2009
    ISBN9780061968662
    Preface
    Author

    John Cheever

    John Cheever, best known for his short stories dealing with upper-middle-class suburban life, was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. Cheever published his first short story at the age of seventeen. He was the recipient of a 1951 Guggenheim Fellowship and winner of a National Book Award for The Wapshot Chronicle in 1958, the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Stories of John Cheever, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and an American Book Award. He died in 1982, at the age of seventy.

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