EPISODE · Jan 22, 2004 · 6H 24M
The John Cheever Audio Collection (Unabridged Stories) Audiobook by John Cheever
from Discover the New Releases Audiobooks in Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies · host John Cheever
https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/48/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The John Cheever Audio Collection (Unabridged Stories) Author: John Cheever Narrator: Meryl Streep, George Plimpton, others Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins Language: English Release date: 01-22-04 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 191 votes Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: 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 almost everybody wore a hat.' This collection contains "The Enormous Radio," "The Five-Forty-Eight," "O City of Broken Dreams," "Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor," "The Season of Divorce," "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow," "The Sorrows of Gin," "O Youth and Beauty!," "The Chaste Clarissa," "The Jewels of the Cabots," "The Death of Justina," and "The Swimmer." This special audio collection also features archival recording of the author reading, and a preface written by the author and read by his son, Benjamin Cheever. Critic Reviews: "A remarkable treat for lovers of audiobooks...The inclusion of Cheever's readings makes for a deeply personal, resonant finale to a truly superb production." (Publishers Weekly) "If you've ever wished the characters in an Edward Hopper painting would come alive and tell their stories, then don't miss this luminous recording....An incomparable set of narrators delivers the stories with perfection." (AudioFile)
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