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Length5m
About this audiobook
Here is the preface to the twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.
As Cheever writes in his preface, "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."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Fantasy
Length5 mins
Narrated byMeryl Streep, Ben Cheever, Peter Gallagher
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 22, 2009
LanguageEnglish
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