Bøger af John Cheever

John Cheever's Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Cheever shows the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the last century.

Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New England, The Wapshot Chronicle is a family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James

• A revealing self-portrait: In addition to his novels and short stories, John Cheever wrote a prodigious number of letters—sometimes thirty in a week. In The Letters of John Cheever , edited and annotated by his son Benjamin, Cheever reveals his most private thoughts to friends, famous writers, family, and lovers—all of whom he encouraged to discard what he wrote. “Saving letters is like trying to preserve a kiss,” he said. As a result, these letters form a story that is even more candid than his journals, and as vivid and human as any he ever invented..• An intriguing literary icon: Cheever, a complex and contradictory man, “was an adulterer who wrote eloquently in praise of monogamy … a bisexual who detested any sign of sexual ambiguity.” Cheever was a stranger to those closest to him and presented to the world what he thought it wanted to see. These letters display the stark contrast between his ambitions and weaknesses, while tracing his evolution as an artist. .

Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him back into childhood. Only John Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.

John Cheever (1912-1982) er en af de store amerikanske forfattere fra det 20. århundrede. Tre af hans romaner er udkommet på dansk, men ingen af hans noveller, hvilket er underligt i betragtning af, at de fleste litterære eksperter vurderer novellerne som toppen af hans litterære produktion.Vi forsøger nu at råde bod på dette ved at udgive et meget fyldigt udvalg af The Stories of John Cheever, hans samlede noveller, som ved udgivelsen i 1979 ryddede bordet for alle de store amerikanske litterære priser, nemlig Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award og National Book Critics Circle Award.Cheever er blevet kaldt ‘forstædernes Tjekov’, fordi hans noveller ofte foregår i forstædernes middelklassemiljøer, og et af hovedtemaerne er dualiteten i den menneskelige natur, nogle gange gestaltet som forskellen på en persons pæne og ordentlige sociale fremtræden og vedkommendes indre fordærv, andre gange som en konflikt mellem to personer, ofte brødre, som inkarnerer iøjnefaldende træk ved begge: lys og mørke, sanselighed og ånd.

John Cheever anses for at være en af de store amerikanske forfattere fra det 20. århundrede, og han er især berømmet for sine noveller. Det kom til udtryk, da The Stories of John Cheever, som dette udvalg er hentet fra, ved udgivelsen i 1978 ryddede bordet for alle de store amerikanske litterære priser – Pulitzer-prisen, National Book Award og National Book Critics Circle Award.De fleste af John Cheevers noveller udspiller sig i de amerikanske forstæder, som skød op i den økonomiske optur efter anden verdenskrig som et symbol på den amerikanske middelklassedrøm. Men der gik ikke lang tid, før et kor af litterære stemmer, blandt dem John Cheever, begyndte at reagere på den mentale ensretning, en tilværelse med cocktailparties, swimmingpools og pendlerjob i storbyen avlede. Økonomisk desperation og en grundlæggende eksistentiel ensomhed lurer konstant i baggrunden hos Cheever.

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWhen The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize.In the years since, it has become a classic.Vintage Books is proud to reintroduce this magnificent collection.Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "e;the greatest generation."e;From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "e;The Enormous Radio"e; to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in "e;The Housebreaker of Shady Hill"e; and "e;The Swimmer,"e; Cheever tells us everything we need to know about "e;the pain and sweetness of life."e;

In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to The Wapshot Chronicle, the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS, and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion.A novel of large and tender vision, The Wapshot Scandal is filled with pungent characters and outrageous twists of fate, and, above all, with Cheever's luminous compassion for all his hapless fellow prisoners of human nature.

What's the worst another drink could do? From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, this title includes stories suffused with beauty, sadness, and the gathering storm of a bender well-done.

John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he was a great writer, but one whose acute levels of perception often crippled him as a person.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERSOnce upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAY MCINERNEYJohn Cheever's letters offer a tantalising glimpse into the life of a writer. They include correspondence with his contemporaries, such as Philip Roth, John Updike and Saul Bellow, his days as a young, aspiring writer and his battles with bisexuality and alcoholism.

In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes.

Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names in Cheever's sharp and funny hymn to the dubious normality of the American suburbs.