About the book
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. In a career that spanned nearly fifty years, his short stories, often published in the New Yorker, gave voice to the repressed desires and smouldering disappointments of 1950s America as it teetered on the edge of spiritual awakening and sexual liberation in the ensuing decades.
Selected for the first time, these satirical, fantastical, sad and transcendent stories show Cheever in all his brilliance and continue to speak directly to the heart of human experience.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Editions of Vision of the World
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781784875831
- EBook
- ISBN 9781473572164
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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. In a career that spanned nearly fifty years, his short stories, often published in the New Yorker, gave voice to the repressed desires and smouldering disappointments of 1950s America as it teetered on the edge of spiritual awakening and sexual liberation in the ensuing decades.
Selected for the first time, these satirical, fantastical, sad and transcendent stories show Cheever in all his brilliance and continue to speak directly to the heart of human experience.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
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What is Vision of the World about?
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. In a career that spanned nearly fifty years, his short stories, often published in the New Yorker, gave voice to the repressed desires and smouldering disappointments of 1950s America as it teetered on the edge of spiritual awakening and sexual liberation in the ensuing decades.
Selected for the first time, these satirical, fantastical, sad and transcendent stories show Cheever in all his brilliance and continue to speak directly to the heart of human experience.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Vision of the World?
Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre > Classic fiction: literary and general
Where can I read a sample of Vision of the World?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781784875831
How long is Vision of the World and how many pages does it have?
Vision of the World has 304 page(s)
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Vision of the World?
John Cheever
Who is the Publisher of the book Vision of the World?
Random House
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Vision of the World is available as paperback(ISBN 9781784875831) and ebook(ISBN 9781473572164)
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