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A Vision of the World: Selected Short Stories by John Cheever
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century’s most influential short story writer. SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JULIAN BARNES Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, John Cheever - variously referred to as ‘Ovid in Ossining’ and the ‘Chekhov of the suburbs’ - foreve ...Show more
A Vision of the World: Selected Short Stories by John Cheever
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Category: New Hardbacks
The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most important and influential short story writer. Selected and introduced by Julian BarnesThe first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most influential short story writer.SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JULIAN BARNESW ...Show more
Bullet Park by John Cheever
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Category: Fiction
Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names in Cheever's sharp and funny hymn to the dubious normality of the American suburbs. ...Show more
Drinking: Vintage Minis by John Cheever
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Category: Display & Gift | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
What's the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, these are ...Show more
Falconer by John Cheever
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Category: Fiction
A story of human redemption, Falconer explores an ex-professor's experiences as an inmate in Falconer Prison. Ezekiel Farragut, convicted of killing his brother, has been imprisoned in the state prison where he is visited by his wife Marcia, with whom he has a love-hate relationship. Falconer tells the ...Show more
Falconer by John Cheever
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Category: Fiction
Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a drug-addict and a murderer. Locked in Falconer State Penitentiary, he struggles through tormenting visits from his wife, the burden of memory and guilt, and the brutal monotony of his surroundings to retain his humanity, eventually finding the possibility of re ...Show more
Falconer (Popular Penguin) by John Cheever
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Category: Display & Gift | Series: Popular Penguins
Ezekiel Farragut, a college professor and heroin addict, is sent to Falconer Correctional Facility after murdering his brother. Enclosed in a filthy cell, witness to the routine savagery of the guards and his fellow prisoners - murderers, conmen and thieves - Farragut believes he is one of the living de ...Show more
The Collected Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever; Hanif Kureishi (Introduction by)
$41.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"These outstanding stories of American award-winning novelist, John Cheever, show the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the century. Stories of love and squalor, set in a world in which momentary glimpses of brightness contend with time, social change, and the chaos of history. ...Show more
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection features 61 stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation.""Profound and daring . . . some of the most wonderful stories any American has written."--"The Boston Globe."
The Wapshot Chronicle by CHEEVER JOHN
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Category: Fiction
Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses' adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New Englan ...Show more
The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever
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Category: Fiction
Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village - and into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS and the humiliating abyss of adulterous pass ...Show more
The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever
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Category: Fiction | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to The Wapshot Chronicle, the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS, and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion.A nove ...Show more