Drinking
Vintage Minis
$19.40
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
29 May 2017
Summary
Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between.
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 t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784872649 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1784872644 |
| Author: | John Cheever |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 29 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 77g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 111mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Vintage Minis |
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John Cheever understood fallibility and that made for the greatness in his writing
John Cheever understood fallibility and that made for the greatness in his writing * The Times *Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world’s most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human… They look good and read well. That’s win/win in our book. * Stylist *
About The Author
John Cheever
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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