by John Cheever
Me tomo casi un año pero finalmente las leí todas ."Goodbye, my brother " es mi historia preferida ; el contenido entero es genial pero esa primera me llegó ...
I heard that John Cheever was one of the masters of short stories so I decided to go and introduce myself via this collection compiled by a Polish publisher in the 70s. It is made up of six stories:"The Housebreaker of Shady Hill""Torch Song""The Hartleys""Boy in Rome""Brimmer""O City of Broken Drea...
Cheever is a good story teller but I'm not sure that he's a great one. Too often he spells things out at the end that the reader had already figured out. In his best stories he doesn't do this. He also has some strange left turns that I don't always get. Finally, even though much of this was pro...
These stories are primarily about people who suck, but who somehow manage to maintain the appearance of people who don't suck. Eventually, they push their luck and are exposed. Then all the neighbors gossip about them, because it's better to keep the focus on the suckers who've been found out and ...
Like most people, prior to picking up this at-times masterful, at-times leaden collection, I had read perhaps two short stories written by John Cheever. “The Enormous Radio,” one of Cheever’s earliest, remains a popularly anthologized slice of horror dished up to high schoolers, while “The Swimmer,”...
I know I have read this book, maybe about 10 years ago. I don't remember much at all. I just remember that some of the stories I did like, and some were terribly boring. What I ALWAYS remember is what the book looked like - a beige hardcover. As if that is worth remembering! Really it wouldn't be ba...
John Cheever has been called "the Chekhov of the suburbs," but I don't entirely agree with that. His stories are harsh and ugly; they make their characters pathetic at best and offensive at worst. Chekhov is gentle and respectful in comparison--probably in an absolute sense as well, but certainly in...
Some of his stories are pretty good, but mostly they all just run into much of a muchness when you read them together like this.
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