{"product_id":"book-ad2h","title":"The John Cheever Audio Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHere are twelve magnificent short stories from acclaimed author John Cheever, read by an incredible cast of celebrity narrators, as well as Cheever himself. 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.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Wapshot Chronicle,\u003c\/em\u003e won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 \u003cem\u003eThe Stories of John Cheever\u003c\/em\u003e won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death, in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe preface is read by Benjamin Cheever, John Cheever's son and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Plagiarist, The Parisian\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFamous after Death. \u003c\/em\u003eThe stories in this collection include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Enormous Radio\u003c\/em\u003e read by Meryl Streep\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Five-Forty-Eight\u003c\/em\u003e read by Edward Herrmann\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eO City of Broken Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e read by Blythe Danner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eChristmas is a Sad Season for the Poor\u003c\/em\u003e read by George Plimpton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Season of Divorce\u003c\/em\u003e read by Edward Herrmann\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Brigadier and the Golf Widow\u003c\/em\u003e read by Peter Gallagher\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Sorrows of Gin\u003c\/em\u003e read by Meryl Streep\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eO Youth and Beauty! \u003c\/em\u003eread by Peter Gallagher\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Chaste Clarissa\u003c\/em\u003e read by Blythe Danner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Jewels of the Cabots\u003c\/em\u003e read by George Plimpton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Death of Justina\u003c\/em\u003e read by John Cheever\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Swimmer\u003c\/em\u003e read by John Cheever\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49345904509232,"sku":"BDad2h","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [10]","offer_id":49345904542000,"sku":"10ad2h","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49345904607536,"sku":"40ad2h","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ad2h-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775245708","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ad2h","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}