词条 | The Stories of John Cheever |
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| name = The Stories of John Cheever | image = Image:JohnCheeverStories.jpg | caption = First edition | author = John Cheever | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Short story collection | publisher = Alfred A. Knopf | pub_date = 1978 | media_type = Print (hardback & paperback) | pages = | isbn = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The Swimmer." It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979 and its first paperback edition won a 1981 National Book Award.[1][2] Stories included in the collection
Summaries of Short Stories"The Five-Forty-Eight" is a short story that follows the actions of Blake, the main character, and his escape from a woman following him through the streets of Manhattan. The woman's name is Miss Dent; she was fired at the behest of Blake after they had a one-night stand together. Eventually, Miss Dent catches up with Blake on the Five-Forty-Eight train back to Shady-Hill. During this train ride back, Miss Dent has a gun pressed against Blake, and she threatens to kill him if he tries to escape. After getting to the last stop, Miss Dent brings Blake to a freight house were she teaches Blake a lesson he would be incapable of learning by himself. After pushing Blake into the dirt, Miss Dent walks away, and Blake continues his way home.[3] Notes1. ^[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1981 "National Book Awards – 1981"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-14. (With essays by Willie Perdomo, Matthew Pitt, and Robert Wilder from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog. 2. ^Cheever's Stories won the 1981 award for paperback Fiction. From 1980 to 1983 in National Book Awards history there were dual hardcover and paperback awards in most categories. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints, including this one. 3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1954/04/10/the-five-forty-eight|title=The Five-Forty-Eight|website=The New Yorker|access-date=May 3, 2017}} References{{reflist}}External links
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