Essential Cheever CD (Caedmon Essentials) [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

John Cheever (Author), Meryl Streep (Reader), Ben Cheever (Reader)

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Publication Date: July 25, 2006 | Series: Caedmon Essentials

One Great Author. One Great CD.

Here are two magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.

As Cheever wrote, "These 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 stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat."

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About the Author

John Cheever, best known for his short stories dealing with upper-middle-class suburban life, was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. Cheever published his first short story at the age of seventeen. He was the recipient of a 1951 Guggenheim Fellowship and winner of a National Book Award for The Wapshot Chronicle in 1958, the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Stories of John Cheever, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and an American Book Award. He died in 1982, at the age of seventy.

Product Details

• Audio CD: 416 pages
• Publisher: Caedmon; Unabridged edition (July 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061126462
• ISBN-13: 978-0061126468
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 6.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,789,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Essential Cheever CD (Caedmon Essentials) (Audio CD)

meryl streep reads the story of "The Enormous Radio" with beauty and elegance. I keep listening to it over and over...the other story, "The Swimmer" that is read by Cheever isn't as good..the writing is beautiful ..the story teller should have left this one for Ms. Streep to read/act. He just reads it.