Последние издания книг Джона Чивера

Selected and introduced by long-time Cheever fan and Booker Prize-winning novelist JULIAN BARNES.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, John Cheever - variously referred to as 'Ovid in Ossining' and 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 Sixties.

Up until now, John Cheever's stories have only been available in Collected Stories, but with Julian Barnes' selection we have the first fully authorised introduction to Cheever's work. Satirical, fantastical, sad and transcendent, these are stories that speak directly to the heart of human experience, and remain a testament to the wit and vision of one of the most important and influential short story writers of the twentieth century.

Джон Чивер (1912-1982) - один из самых популярных писателей США второй половины XX века, его называли "Чеховым американского пригорода". Его знаменитые романы "Семейная хроника Уопшотов" и "Скандал в семействе Уопшотов" относятся к лучшим его произведениям. Герои этих произведений внешне преуспевающие и благополучные американцы, однако их на первый взгляд благопристойная жизнь время от времени освещается трагическим светом. Любовь и ненависть, счастье и горе, радость и досада, странности и причуды - все это присутствует в жизни обитателей небольшого американского города.

Не склоняйте головы. Восхищайтесь миром.
Наслаждайтесь любовью нежной женщины.
Уповайте на Бога.
Джон Чивер

Какие бы пороки и жалкие слабости своих пригородных героев ни описывал Чивер, они всегда неразрывно переплетены золотыми нитями его нежной жалости к этим героям, его нежной любви к облакам, ветру, дождю, солнцу, к плавательным бассейнам, к теннисным кортам, к элегантной зелени - ко всему, что составляет их миниатюрное и шаткое королевство… Как и Скотт Фицджеральд, Чивер был очарованным романтиком. Но сколько бы он ни скользил и ни падал в реальной жизни, в прозе он до самого конца крепко держал вожжи своего лирического дара, позволяя демонам пугнуть и отрезвить нас, но не давая им разнести в прах нашу живую душу.
Джеймс Уолкотт, журнал "Vanity Fair"

What’s the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents’ liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, these are stories suffused with beauty, sadness, and the gathering storm of a bender well-done. Seen through the gin-lacquered looking glass of Cheever’s writing, your next drink may have you reaching for a lime and soda instead.

Oh What a Paradise It Seems

Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a drug-addict and a murderer. Locked in Falconer State Penitentiary, he struggles through tormenting visits from his wife, the burden of memory and guilt, and the brutal monotony of his surroundings to retain his humanity, eventually finding the possibiltiy of redemption through an affair with a fellow prisoner. Considered by many to be Cheever's masterpiece, Falconer is a tour de force from one of America's greatest storytellers.

John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he hated himself for his drinking, but for much of his life was dependent upon it; he was a great writer, but one whose acute levels of perception often crippled him as a person. His journals are candid, beautiful and often startling.

This outstanding collection by Pulitzer prize-winning novelist John Cheever show the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the last century. Stories of love and of squalor, they include masterpieces such as 'The Swimmer' and 'Goodbye, My Brother' and date from the time of his honourable discharge from the Army at the end of the Second World War.

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In 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?


Cheever's wry fable of modern American is interlaced with musings on everything from the etiquette of supermarket queues to the evolution of the ice-skate.

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Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey?s groundbreaking new biography, here is the definitive edition of the stories of John Cheever. Set in the tony suburbs of Westchester and Connecticut, Cheever?s classic stories charted a country as recognizable and essential to American literature as Faulkner?s or Hawthorne?s. ?Many people have written about suburbia,? John Updike observed, ?only Cheever was able to make an archetypal place out of it.? 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. Rounding out the volume are essays about writers and writing, including an appreciation of F. Scott Fitzgerald and an account of a visit to Chekhov?s house. A companion volume, Complete Novels, gathers Cheever?s five novels in one volume for the first time.

Роман "Фальконер" - книга о странствиях человеческой души, полной сомнений и страхов, гордыни и смирения, злости и милосердия. Герой романа Иезекиль Фаррагат осужден на тюремное заключение за убийство брата. Попадая в исправительную колонию, он вынужден искать в себе те нравственные качества, которые позволили бы выжить в этом грубом, жестоком мире. Чивер пишет о страдании и искуплении, о вере в чудесное воскресение души, о новом рождении человека, обреченного на смерть.

Джон Чивер - выдающийся американский писатель, признанный классик американской литературы XX века, автор множества рассказов и романов ("Буллет-парк", "Фалконер", "Семейная хроника Уопшотов", "Скандал в семействе Уопшотов"). Джон Чивер - блестящий новеллист, именно как мастер рассказа он и известен. Чивер - поклонник и благодарный ученик А.П.Чехова, О.Генри, Шервуда Андерсона и Э.Хемингуэя. Для его прозы характерно совмещение интриги, глубокого психологизма и юмора, порой довольно мрачного. Его герои жаждут обрести любовь и стать счастливыми и не понимают, почему им это не удается, но, несмотря ни на что, не теряют надежды. В настоящем…

Here is the preface to twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have.

As Cheever writes in his preface, "These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat."

Meet 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, The Wapshot Chronicle is a stirring family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James

When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has become a classic. Vintage Books is proud to reintroduce this magnificent collection.

Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation." From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "The Enormous Radio" to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" and "The Swimmer," Cheever tells us everything we need to know about "the pain and sweetness of life."