The Stories of John Cheever

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Title The Stories of John Cheever

Author	John Cheever
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Short story collection
Publisher
Released	1978
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)

The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Swimmer" and "Goodbye, My Brother." It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1979; the paperback version won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1981.

[edit] Stories included in the collection

• "Goodbye, My Brother"
• "The Common Day"
• "The Enormous Radio"
• "O City of Broken Dreams"
• "The Hartleys"
• "The Sutton Place Story"
• "The Summer Farmer"
• "Torch Song"
• "The Pot of Gold"
• "Clancy in the Tower of Babel"
• "Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor"
• "The Season of Divorce"
• "The Chaste Clarissa"
• "The Cure"
• "The Superintendent"
• "The Children"
• "The Sorrows of Gin"
• "O Youth and Beauty!"
• "The Day the Pig Fell into the Well"
• "The Five-Forty-Eight"
• "Just One More Time"
• "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill"
• "The Bus to St. James's"
• "The Worm in the Apple"
• "The Trouble of Marcie Flint"
• "The Bella Lingua"
• "The Wrysons"
• "The Country Husband"
• "The Duchess"
• "The Scarlet Moving Van"
• "Just Tell Me Who It Was"
• "Brimmer"
• "The Golden Age"
• "The Lowboy"
• "The Music Teacher"
• "A Woman Without a Country"
• "The Death of Justina"
• "Clementina"
• "Boy in Rome"
• "A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear"
• "The Chimera"
• "The Seaside Houses"
• "The Angel of the Bridge"
• "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow"
• "A Vision of the World"
• "Reunion"
• "An Educated American Woman"
• "Metamorphoses"
• "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin"
• "Montraldo"
• "The Ocean"
• "Marito in Città"
• "The Geometry of Love"
• "The Swimmer"
• "The World of Apples"
• "Another Story
• "Percy"
• "The Forth Alarm"
• "Artemis, the Honest Well Digger"
• "Three Stories"
• "The Jewels of the Cabots"

Preceded by Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1979

Succeeded by The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer