Essential Cheever
Written by John Cheever
Narrated by Meryl Streep and Ben Cheever
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About this audiobook
One Great Author. One Great CD.
Here are two magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.
As Cheever wrote, "These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat."
John Cheever
John Cheever, best known for his short stories dealing with upper-middle-class suburban life, was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. Cheever published his first short story at the age of seventeen. He was the recipient of a 1951 Guggenheim Fellowship and winner of a National Book Award for The Wapshot Chronicle in 1958, the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Stories of John Cheever, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and an American Book Award. He died in 1982, at the age of seventy.
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Reviews for Essential Cheever
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The second narrator, who I think was the author, was so terrible, I couldn't even follow the story.
Holy Monotone, Batman!
There was no inflection, or emphasis.
Leave it to the professionals!