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ISBN
9781473572164
Genre
Algemeen
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27-05-2021
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Engels
Uitgever
Random House
Auteur(s)
John Cheever
A Vision of the World
Selected Short Stories
John Cheever
In winkelmandje
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€8,99
**Selected
and
Introduced
by
Booker-Prize
winner
Julian
Barnes'Reading
Cheever
is
a
restless
pleasure,
the
work
never
settles:
these
brilliant
stories
make
me
get
up
and
walk
around
the
room'
Anne
Enright**John
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
the
New
Yorker,
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.Selected
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.Winner
of
the
Pulitzer
Prize
and
the
National
Book Award
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