{"title":"John Cheever","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Cheever\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a profound exploration of human relationships and suburban life, weaving intricate tales that blend both nostalgia and sharp social observation. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eThe Wapshot Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e, capture the complexities of family dynamics and personal aspirations with subtle humour and emotional depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect richly drawn characters and evocative settings that reveal the tensions beneath everyday existence. Cheever’s stories often traverse themes of love, loss, and belonging, making his fiction resonate with both warmth and quiet melancholy.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-vision-of-the-world-by-john-cheever-9781784875831","title":"A Vision of the World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most influential short story writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSelected and introduced by Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReading Cheever is a restless pleasure, the work never settles—these brilliant stories make me get up and walk around the room\u003c\/em\u003e — Anne Enright\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Cheever, the \"Chekhov of the suburbs,\" forever altered the landscape of contemporary literature. In a career that spanned nearly fifty years, his short stories, often published in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, gave voice to the repressed desires and smouldering disappointments of 1950s America as it teetered on the edge of spiritual awakening and sexual liberation in the ensuing decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSelected for the first time, these satirical, fantastical, sad, and transcendent stories show Cheever in all his brilliance and continue to speak directly to the heart of human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46271894913260,"sku":"9781784875831","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781784875831.jpg?v=1742261475"},{"product_id":"the-wapshot-chronicle-by-john-cheever-9780099275275","title":"The Wapshot Chronicle","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first novel John Cheever wrote is a wonderful introduction to his writing; clever, funny, charming and bursting with life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New England, \u003cem\u003eThe Wapshot Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e is a family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47403695735020,"sku":"9780099275275","price":32.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/91YRXuf15ZL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773863270"},{"product_id":"the-letters-of-john-cheever-by-john-cheever-9780099529644","title":"The Letters of John Cheever","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA writer of grace and wit, quietly dealing with people, like himself, who sense that their seemly, well-respected lives are being lived upon a precipice\u003c\/em\u003e - Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith an introduction by Jay McInerney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Letters of John Cheever\u003c\/em\u003e offer a tantalising glimpse into the life of a writer. They include correspondence with his contemporaries, such as Philip Roth, John Updike, and Saul Bellow, his days as a young, aspiring writer, and his battles with bisexuality and alcoholism. In this collection, edited by his son Benjamin Cheever, we see how his private correspondence was as extraordinary as his published works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47403696095468,"sku":"9780099529644","price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/716iloF-uUL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773863328"},{"product_id":"oh-what-a-paradise-it-seems-by-john-cheever-9780099411512","title":"Oh What A Paradise It Seems","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA delight to read\u003c\/em\u003e – Evening Standard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters involved in organised crime. Can Sears thwart the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilisation and save his beloved village?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCheever's wry fable of modern America is interlaced with musings on everything from the etiquette of supermarket queues to the evolution of the ice-skate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47403749015788,"sku":"9780099411512","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71aem15pTJL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773865289"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/john-cheever.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}