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090303s2009 nyu 000 m eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781598530346 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1598530348 |
| 041 ## - Language |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
AS F 823.912 |
| Item number |
C515 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Cheever, John. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
26530 |
| 240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Works. |
| Form subheading |
Selections. |
| Date of a work |
2009 |
| 245 10 - IMMEDIATE SOURCE OF ACQUISITION NOTE |
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| Title |
Collected stories and other writings / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
John Cheever. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Library of America, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
1040 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
21 cm. |
| 440 #4 - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
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| Title |
The Library of America ; |
| Volume number/sequential designation |
188 |
| 9 (RLIN) |
26212 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
"Blake Bailey wrote the chronology and notes for this volume." |
| 520 1# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"John Cheever's stories rank among the finest achievements of 20th-century short fiction. Ensnared by the trappings of affluence, adrift in the emptiness of American prosperity, his characters find themselves in the midst of dramas that, however comic, pose profound questions about conformity and class, pleasure and propriety, and the conduct and meaning of an individual life. At the same time, the stories reveal their author to be a master whose prose is at once precise and sensuous, in which a shrewd eye for social detail is paired with a lyric sensitivity to the world at large. The constants that I look for, he wrote in the preface to The Stories of John Cheever, are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being." "By the late 1940s Cheever had come into his own as a writer, achieving a breakthrough in 1947 with the Kafkaesque tale "The Enormous Radio." It was soon followed by works of startling fluency and power, such as the unsettling Torch Song, with its suggestion of menace and the uncanny, as well as the searing, beautiful treatment of fraternal conflict, "Goodbye, My Brother." Finally, when Cheever and his family moved to Westchester County in the 1950s, he began writing about the disappointments of postwar suburbia in such definitive classics as "The Sorrows of Gin," "The Five-Forty-Eight," "The Country Husband," and "The Swimmer."" "This volume, published to coincide with Blake Bailey's groundbreaking biography, is the largest collection of Cheever's stories ever published, and celebrates his indelible achievement by gathering the complete Stories of John Cheever (1978), as well as seven stories from The Way Some People Live and seven additional stories first published in periodicals between 1930 and 1953. Also included are several short essays on writers and writing, including a previously unpublished speech on Saul Bellow."--BOOK JACKET. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Short stories, American. |
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26314 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Bailey, Blake, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1963- |
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26532 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Item type |
American Shelf |
