The Jewels Of The Cabots

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 110197320X
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewels of the Cabots written by John Cheever and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fabulous short story, the crown jewel of John Cheever’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Stories of John Cheever, a man agonizes about class privilege and racism, confessing to the knowledge of a terrible crime and exposing a quiet American family’s darkest secrets. 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. An ebook short. A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection.

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307743985
Total Pages : 1093 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stories of John Cheever written by John Cheever and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 1093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.” From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill” and “The Swimmer,” these are tales that have helped define the form. Featuring a preface by the Pulizter Prize-winning author, The Stories of John Cheever brings together some of the finest short stories ever written. "Cheever’s crowning achievement is the ability to be simultaneously generous and cynical, to see that the absurd and the profound can reside in the same moment, and to acknowledge both at the detriment of neither." —The Guardian

Author : Blake Bailey
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400079683
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cheever written by Blake Bailey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cheever spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. Written with unprecedented access to essential sources—including Cheever’s massive journal, only a fraction of which has ever been published—Bailey’s Cheever is a stunning example of the biographer’s art and a brilliant tribute to an essential author.

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307760715
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falconer written by John Cheever and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stunning and brutally powerful, "one of the most important novels of our time" (The New York Times) tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him back into childhood. In a nightmarish prison, out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction. Only Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : [S.l.] : Braille Incorporated, [197-?]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Apples written by John Cheever and published by [S.l.] : Braille Incorporated, [197-?]. This book was released on 1973 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Percival Biggar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voyages of the Cabots and of the Corte-Reals to North America and Greenland, 1497-1503 ... written by Henry Percival Biggar and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bradford Morrow
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480463892
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tributes written by Bradford Morrow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Moody on John Cheever; Ben Marcus on Dr. Seuss; Mona Simpson on Henry James: Forty-five essays by great writers, about great writers. For Tributes, Conjunctions invited a number of contemporary writers to pay homage to American literary masters who made something possible for them—whether that was the act of writing itself, writing a certain book, writing in a particular manner, or living in a way that was consonant with the act of writing. This is an anthology of personal enthusiasms, a colloquium Whitman might have seen as a progress of vistas. John Sayles offers an appreciation of Nelson Algren, Robert Creeley of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Nathaniel Mackey on Walt Whitman. And then there’s Rick Moody on John Cheever, Ben Marcus on Dr. Seuss, Mona Simpson on Henry James, Ana Castillo on Anaïs Nin, Anne Waldman on Jack Kerouac, Lydia Davis on Edward Dahlberg. All in all, forty-five authors share compelling tales of their adopted literary parentage.

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307760391
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bullet Park written by John Cheever and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "a master American storyteller" (TIME), Bullet Park traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and the man who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park with one objective—to murder Nailles's son. Welcome to Bullet Park, a township in which even the most buttoned-down gentry sometimes manage to terrify themselves simply by looking in the mirror. In these exemplary environs Pulitzer Prize winner John Cheever delivers a lyrical and mordantly funny hymn to the American suburb—and to all the dubious normalcy it represents—written with unparalleled artistry and assurance. “A magnificent work of fiction.… A novel to pore over, move around in, live with." —The New York Times

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307759989
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oh What a Paradise It Seems written by John Cheever and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers, this “luminous ephiphany of life ... [is] a charming fable of old age, nostalgia, and loss” (The Washington Post Book World). Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever's final novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man, Lemuel Sears, who still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is threatened; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters. In Cheever's accomplished hands the battle between an elderly romantic and the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilization becomes something ribald, poignant, and ineffably joyful. "This is perfect Cheever—it is perfect." —The New York Times Book Review

Author : Meg Cabot
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330535544
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ransom My Heart written by Meg Cabot and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When beautiful, spirited Finnula Crais kidnaps the dashing knight Hugh Fitzstephen, she has no idea that she's ensnared the new Earl of Stephensgate on his way home from the Crusades. Nor does she realize that Hugh is quite happy to be kidnapped by an enchanting tomboy, and will do anything it takes to avoid being rescued. With Finnula determined to hold Hugh to ransom, and Hugh equally determined to steal Finnula's heart, it isn't long before the fireworks start! And just when it looks as if there might be a happy ending, disaster strikes. When an attempt is made on the new Earl's life, there is only one suspect – and even if he loves her dearly, Hugh can't let her get away with it . . . Ransom My Heart is a risqué historical romance written by Princess Mia Thermopolis of Genovia (with a little help from Meg Cabot), as featured in The Princess Diaries series.