The Stories of John Cheever gathers the work that established Cheever as one of the great chroniclers of twentieth-century American life.

Originally appearing in magazines such as The New Yorker, these stories chart the quiet anxieties and strange dislocations of suburban middle-class existence in the decades after the Second World War.

Cheever’s fiction is precise, observant, and faintly surreal at the edges. Behind the lawns, cocktail parties, and commuter trains runs a steady current of loneliness, desire, and moral unease.

The collection won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, cementing Cheever’s reputation as a master of the short form. A little beaten up paperback, but a fair reading copy.