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Feb 20, 2016julia_sedai rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
John Cheever's stories are mostly about upper-middle class Americans who live in the suburbs of New York and are unhappy people. They drink a lot, have affairs, and are usually very flawed, but you can imagine that they were real people. It's easy to see what kind of subjects Cheever liked to write about the most. I recommend reading this over the course of a few months and choosing one or two stories at a time. I read them all in a row, which was still enjoyable, but you start to forget what happened in them because they have similar characters and circumstances. Also it is a lengthy book (700 pages). 'The Swimmer' is definitely one of the best; some others I liked are 'The Enormous Radio', 'The Sutton Place Story', 'The Summer Farmer', 'Torch Song', 'Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor', 'The Chaste Clarissa', 'The Cure', 'The Duchess', 'The Scarlet Moving Van', 'The Music Teacher', 'Clementina', and 'Metamorphoses I'.