Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey�'s groundbreaking new biography, here is the definitive edition of the stories of John Cheever. Set in the tony suburbs of Westchester and
Connecticut, Cheever�'s classic stories charted a country as recognizable and essential to American literature as Faulkner�'s or Hawthorne�'s. ���any people have written about suburbia,���John
Updike observed, ���nly Cheever was able to make an archetypal place out of it.���Collected Stories and Other Writings combines the entire Pulitzer Prize���inning collection, The
Stories of John Cheever, with seven selections from his first book, The Way Some People Live (1943)���ere restored to print���nd seven additional stories first published in
periodicals between 1930 and 1953. Included are masterpieces such as ���he Enormous Radio,������oodbye, My Brother,���and ���he Swimmer,���as well as lesser-known gems. Rounding out the volume
are essays about writers and writing, including an appreciation of F. Scott Fitzgerald and an account of a visit to Chekhov�'s house. A companion volume, Complete Novels, gathers
Cheever�'s five novels in one volume for the first time.
