The Stories of John Cheever is a collection of short stories by John Cheever and includes some of his most famous work. It won the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,
National Book Award for Fiction, and
National Book Critics Circle Award making it one of the most decorated book to be published.
The book includes following stories:
- "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"