John Cheever

A collection of sixty-one of Cheever's short stories, including four that have never been published in book form.

In a nightmarish prison a convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man. Out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction.

Three decades of writer John Cheever's journals giving an account of his family life, literary life, and emotional life. An outstanding literary event: the journals--begun in the late 1940s and continued through more than three decades--of a great American writer. John Cheever's journals provide, of course, peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories. But they are equally the record of a complex, often dark, always closely observed...

An ordinary man finds his daily routine shattered when he meets a former lover on the homebound train.