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The Sorrows of Gin

The Sorrows of Gin( )
Author: Cheever, John
Read by: Streep, Meryl
Cheever, Ben
Gallagher, Peter
ISBN:978-0-06-196869-3
Publication Date:Sep 2009
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Caedmon
Book Format:Downloadable audio file
List Price:USD $.99
Book Description:

Here is the preface to twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have.

As Cheever writes in his preface, "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...
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Author Biography
Cheever, John (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 17, and in 1979, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his collected edition of short stories, titled Stories of John Cheever.

Cheever also wrote screenplays, and five novels, including The Wapshot Chronicle, which won the National Book Award in 1957.

Cheever died in 1982, at the age of 70.

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