John Cheever

The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most influential short story writer. Selected and introduced by Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes Reading Cheever is a restless pleasure, the work never settles—these brilliant stories make me get up and walk around the room — Anne Enright John Cheever, the "Chekhov of the suburbs," forever altered the landscape of contemporary literature....

The first novel John Cheever wrote is a wonderful introduction to his writing; clever, funny, charming and bursting with life. 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's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on...

A writer of grace and wit, quietly dealing with people, like himself, who sense that their seemly, well-respected lives are being lived upon a precipice - Sunday Times With an introduction by Jay McInerney The Letters of John Cheever offer a tantalising glimpse into the life of a writer. They include correspondence with his contemporaries, such as Philip Roth, John...

A delight to read – Evening Standard In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters involved in organised crime. Can Sears thwart the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilisation...