By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
The short stories of John Cheever (1912-82) are among the greatest American short stories of the twentieth century. His Collected Stories runs to 900 pages and contains tales which are by turns realist, borderline magic-realist, and downright strange.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
‘Reunion’ is a 1962 short story by the American writer John Cheever (1912-82). In the story, a young man meets up for a reunion with his father, but his father’s rude manner leads to their reunion being a failure.
‘Reunion’, like much of John Cheever’s short fiction, seems straightforward and can easily be comprehended, but there are some interesting ambiguities in the narrative which are worthy of closer analysis. First, though, here’s a brief summary of the story’s plot.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
‘The Swimmer’ (1964) is John Cheever’s best-known story. This tale, which fuses realist and surrealist elements, is about a middle-aged married man who decides to travel home from his friends’ house one summer afternoon, swimming in the various swimming pools he encounters on his route.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
‘The Swimmer’ is a 1964 short story by the American writer John Cheever (1912-82), published in his collection The Brigadier and the Golf Widow. Cheever’s best-known story, ‘The Swimmer’ is about a middle-aged married man who decides to travel home from his friends’ house one summer afternoon, swimming in the various swimming pools he encounters on his route.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
‘The World of Apples’ is a short story by the American writer John Cheever (1912-82). It appeared as the title story in his 1973 collection of the same name. The story concerns an elderly poet who, while living in Italy, develops and overwhelming urge to write bawdy limericks instead of the more dignified and refined poetry that he had written all his life.