The Jewels of the Cabots
A Vintage Shorts Short Story Month Selection Wandering about the sleepy Connecticut town of his childhood, where residents lead lives of grueling boredom, a journalist reminisces about the Cabot children: Molly, a sweet girl and his first love; Geneva who pilfered her mother's diamonds from the clothesline and ran off to the Middle East; Wallace, Mr. Cabot's bastard son who lives in the tenements across the river; and the dwarf, Mrs. Cabot's child from an earlier marriage. In this fabulous tale, the crown jewel of John Cheever's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Stories of John Cheever, a man agonizes about class privilege and racism…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-101-97320-2
- EAN: 9781101973202
- Produktnummer: 19781316
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 15 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'408 KB
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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.
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