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Pertenece a las series editorialesLibrary of America (188) ContieneThe housebreaker of Shady Hill, and other stories por John Cheever (indirecto)
Collected Stories and Other Writings combines the entire Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, The Stories of John Cheever, with seven selections from his first book, The Way Some People Live (1943)-here restored to print-and seven additional stories first published in periodicals between 1930 and 1953. Included are masterpieces such as The Enormous Radio, Goodbye, My Brother, and The Swimmer, as well as lesser-known gems. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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It seems to me that John Cheever had a strange life, and strange friends. His ideas of a home life, and a married life, with children, seem weird. It could be the difference between class, culture, and the time that this was written, but I think it's more than that.
As to the "season of divorce," it's about a married couple who are struggling a bit, because the husband doesn't make much money.
They have a strange routine with their children, where the children eat dinner early and are bathed and go to bed, and then the husband and wife have dinner at the dining table with candles and china. Though they eat dishes such as corned beef hash.
One of their neighbors is a doctor who is married to a woman about 15 years older than him. The doctor falls in love with the protagonist's wife. And the wife, in a session in the middle of the night, confesses to her husband how unhappy she is, and why shouldn't she go away? But I guess they end up staying together. Strange.
By the way, John Cheever was bisexual, but hated that aspect of himself, so he was probably very unhappy. ( )