Selected Short Stories—JOHN CHEEVER—1980 Hardcover

Description: • For Your Consideration: • “SELECTED SHORT STORIES” (Progress Publishers, 1980) (Hardcover, First Soviet Edition Thus) • BY JOHN CHEEVER • A First Edition Thus in HARDCOVER in ENGLISH* • By PROGRESS PUBLISHERS of the Soviet Union *ENGLISH NOTE: The 12 Short Stories by CHEEVER in this collection are all published in their original English—the Copyright Page, Introduction, Afterword, & Vocabulary Notes are in Russian. • “JOHN CHEEVER is an enchanted realist, and his voice, in his luminous short stories…is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature.” —PHILIP ROTH • The “shadowy and troubled undergrowth of CHEEVER’s stories brings to mind something of the temper of MELVILLE and HAWTHORNE.” —ELIZABETH HARDWICK • “As stories go, as compellingly readable narratives of a certain sort of people in a certain time and place—our time and place—JOHN CHEEVER’s stories are, simply, the best.”—WASHINGTON POST • “Some of the most wonderful stories any American has written.” —BOSTON GLOBE • “One of America’s great short story writers.”—LIBRARY JOURNAL • “There is a great, questing soul alive everywhere in these stories, a soul trying to come to grips with the parameters of human experience amid the ravishing beauty of nature. Few prose writers can touch CHEEVER for the painterly precision of his descriptions, and the reward of them too—his characters, locked in the struggles of suburban and familial angst, regularly experience moments of transcendence and rebirth in nature.”—T. C. BOYLE • “CHEEVER’s crowning achievement is the ability to be simultaneously generous and cynical, to see that the absurd and the profound can reside in the same moment, and to acknowledge both at the detriment of neither.” —CHRIS POWER, THE GUARDIAN (UK) • “JOHN CHEEVER was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965, he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.”—VINTAGE BOOKS • “JOHN CHEEVER’s stories rank among the finest achievements of twentieth-century short fiction. Ensnared by the trappings of affluence, adrift in the emptiness of American prosperity, his characters find themselves in the midst of dramas that, however comic, pose profound questions about conformity and class, pleasure and propriety, and the conduct and meaning of an individual life. At the same time, the stories reveal their author to be a master whose prose is at once precise and sensuous, in which a shrewd eye for social detail is paired with a lyric sensitivity to the world at large.”—LIBRARY OF AMERICA • “I felt that I was hearing for the first time the voice of a new generation.” —MALCOLM COWLEY, EDITOR, THE NEW REPUBLIC, ON READING THE AUTHOR’S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK (“EXPELLED,” 1980, WRITTEN WHEN CHEEVER WAS 18) • TABLE OF CONTENT: • COPYRIGHT PAGE & INTRODUCTION (IN RUSSIAN)• “FRÈRE JACUQES” (IN ENGLISH) • “THE PLEASURES OF SOLITUDE” (IN ENGLISH)• “THE SUTTON PLACE STORY” (IN ENGLISH)• “THE SUPERINTENDENT” (IN ENGLISH) • “THE DAY THE PIG FELL INTO THE WELL” (IN ENGLISH) • “THE COUNTRY HUSBAND” (IN ENGLISH) • “THE WRYSONS” (IN ENGLISH) • THE SCARLET MOVING VAN” (IN ENGLISH)• “A WOMAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY” (IN ENGLISH) • “CLEMENTINA” (IN ENGLISH) • “THE ANGEL OF THE BRIDGE” (IN ENGLISH) • “THE SWIMMER” (IN ENGLISH) • AFTERWOOD & VOCABULARY NOTES (IN RUSSIAN) • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “SELECTED SHORT STORIES” AUTHOR: JOHN CHEEVER TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Progress Publishers (Moscow), 1980 EDITION: First Russia Edition* *RE: On the Title & Copyright Pages, the publication year (1980) match—with no later editions listed. PAGES: 344ISBN: N/A NOTE: THIS BOOK is not an ex-library copy nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition.CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD MINUS. DJ was not issued with a price. Corners & spines are chipped. Starting along the bottom edge of the back is cut in the shape of a half-circle—the longest part of the (closed) cut is two inches in length. Other edges only have light wear. Light but persistent smudging & scratching on sides. CONDITION OF BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square. Though the edges are lightly discolored, boards are clean & bright. Top corner of front is rubbed; other corners are merely bumped. Spine is tight & uncreased with bumped tips. The text-block edges are lightly age-toned. There’s a name written on the front free endpaper; endpapers are otherwise fine. 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