John Cheever
John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome. His short stories included "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer", and he also wrote five novels: The Wapshot Chronicle , The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982).
Books by John Cheever
3 books available
The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
4.3(14,206)
In mid-century American suburbia, Cheever's characters face quiet despair, infidelity, and the fading promise of the American dream, often finding brief moments of grace or deep disappointment by the swimming pool.
The Wapshot Chronicle
by John Cheever
3.8(7,607)
The Wapshot brothers leave their New England fishing village for the wider world, dealing with modern life's absurdities, their family's odd legacy, and the search for belonging, while their father fights a cousin for the family fortune.
The Swimmer
by John Cheever
4.0(2,849)
On a perfect summer day, Neddy Merrill swims through his suburban neighborhood's pools, only to find his life growing colder and more desolate with each stroke towards an inescapable truth.