John Cheever (Author of The Stories of John Cheever)

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John Cheever

Born

in Quincy, Massachusetts, The United States

May 27, 1912

Died

June 18, 1982

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Gay & Lesbian

Influences

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Chekov, Proust ...more

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John Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs" or "the Ovid of Ossining." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the suburbs of Westchester, New York, and old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born.

His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character's decorous social persona and inner corruption, and sometimes as a conflict between two characters (often brothers) who embody the salient aspects of both--light and dark, flesh and spirit. Many of his works also express a nostalgia for a vanishing way of life, characterized by abiding cult ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 56,353 ratings · 4,808 reviews · 308 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	The Stories of John Cheever 4.26 avg rating — 15,498 ratings — published 1978	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Falconer 3.65 avg rating — 8,632 ratings — published 1977 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wapshot Chronicle 3.75 avg rating — 7,463 ratings — published 1957 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Swimmer 4.03 avg rating — 5,055 ratings — published 1964 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bullet Park 3.75 avg rating — 3,011 ratings — published 1967 — 86 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oh What a Paradise It Seems 3.47 avg rating — 1,734 ratings — published 1982 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wapshot Scandal 3.74 avg rating — 940 ratings — published 1964 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Journals of John Cheever 4.20 avg rating — 817 ratings — published 1990 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Enormous Radio 4.01 avg rating — 821 ratings — published 1947 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Stories and Other Writings by John Cheever, Blake Bailey (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 457 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by John Cheever (?)

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

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“I can鈥檛 write without a reader. It鈥檚 precisely like a kiss鈥攜ou can鈥檛 do it alone.”
― John Cheever

tags: readers-and-writers

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“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos鈥� to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
― John Cheever

tags: books, fiction, inspirational, on-fiction, writing

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September 2022 Short Story/Novell Poll

Flush by Virginia Woolf, 115 pages, 1935

55 votes, 27.0%

No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez, 69 pages, 1961

52 votes, 25.5%

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy, 122 pages, 1935

32 votes, 15.7%

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, 48 pages, 1909

26 votes, 12.7%

笔丑猫诲谤别 by Jean Racine, 52 pages, 1677

19 votes, 9.3%

Goodbye, My Brother by John Cheever, 21 pages, 1951

13 votes, 6.4%

Gr忙nlendinga saga by Unknown, 12+- pages, Published??

7 votes, 3.4%

204 total votes

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