Drinking
Vintage Minis
What's the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, these are stories suffused with beauty, sadness, and the gathering storm of a bender well-done. Seen through the gin-lacquered looking glass of Cheever's writing, your next drink may have you reaching for a lime and soda instead. Selected from the book Collected Stories by John Cheever. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of sh…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78487-264-9
- EAN: 9781784872649
- Produktnummer: 22406935
- Verlag: Random House UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Ausstattung: A-Format Paperback
- Masse: H17.7 cm x B10.8 cm x D1.0 cm 76 g
- Gewicht: 76
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.
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