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The John Cheever Audio Collection
By John CheeverNarrated by Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever, Peter GallagherLength6h 21m
About this audiobook
Here are twelve magnificent short stories from acclaimed author John Cheever, read by an incredible cast of celebrity narrators, as well as Cheever himself. 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.""
John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 The Stories of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death, in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
The preface is read by Benjamin Cheever, John Cheever's son and author of The Plagiarist, The Parisian and Famous after Death. The stories in this collection include:
The Enormous Radio read by Meryl Streep
The Five-Forty-Eight read by Edward Herrmann
O City of Broken Dreams read by Blythe Danner
Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor read by George Plimpton
The Season of Divorce read by Edward Herrmann
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow read by Peter Gallagher
The Sorrows of Gin read by Meryl Streep
O Youth and Beauty! read by Peter Gallagher
The Chaste Clarissa read by Blythe Danner
The Jewels of the Cabots read by George Plimpton
The Death of Justina read by John Cheever
The Swimmer read by John Cheever
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.1 (643)
Includes Amazon, Goodreads
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length6 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byMeryl Streep, Ben Cheever, Peter Gallagher
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJan 13, 2004
LanguageEnglish
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