John Cheever Audio & Video

John Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs".

Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates, with unequaled grace and tenderness, the deepest feelings we have....

When The Wapshot Chronicle was published in 1957, John Cheever was already recognized as a writer of superb short stories. But The Wapshot Chronicle, which won the 1958 National Book Award, established him as a major novelist.

New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's life blood, it is the heart of American literary culture....

Here are two magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates-with unequaled grace and tenderness-the deepest feelings we have.

Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; his Bullet Park neighbour, Paul Hammer, is a bastard named after a common household tool....

A convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man while inside a nightmarish prison. Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation....