A Vision of the World
Selected Short Stories
Julian Barnes selects and introduces these short stories by twentieth century American pioneer of the form John Cheever, whose depictions of thwarted suburban longing captured the disappointments of a 1950s US yearning for spiritual awakening.
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Barnes, Julian (Einf.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78487-582-4
- EAN: 9781784875824
- Produktnummer: 32307013
- Verlag: Random House UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B13.8 cm
Über den Autor
John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912, and he went to school at Thayer Academy in South Braintree. 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 he 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.Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and The Man in the Red Coat, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Duff Cooper Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.
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