"These stories," writes Cheever in the preface to this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of stories, "seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationary store, and when almost everybody wore a hat. Here is the last of that generation of chain smokers who woke the world in the morning with their coughing, who used to get stoned at cocktail parties and perform obsolete dance steps like 'the Cleveland Chicken,' set sail for Europe on ships, who were truly nostalgic for love and happiness, and whose gods were as ancient as yours and mine, whoever you are."
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John William Cheever
Nasceu em Quincy, Massachusetts, em 1912, de uma família branca, anglo-saxã e puritana. Morador de subúrbios de classe média alta durante quase toda a vida, dali tirou inspiração e ambiente para suas obras ficcionais. Depois de colaborar por muitos anos com a revista New Yorker, lança seu primeiro romance, <i>The Wapshot Chronicle</i>, em 1958, pelo qual recebe o National Book Award. Publicou ainda diversas coletâneas de contos - entre as quais <i>The Stories of John Cheever</i> - e os romances <i>The Wapshot Scandal</i> (1964), <i>Bullet Park</i> (1969) e <i>Falconer</i> (1977). Considerado um dos maiores contistas americanos, Cheever recebeu, dois meses antes de falecer, em 1982, a Medalha Nacional para Literatura pela American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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