Collected Stories

I’ve read nothing better this year than The Stories of John Cheever. -- Peter McKay * Daily Mail, Book of the Year *
Cheever's accomplishment in his exacting art is proportionally large, as solid as it is brilliant, and likely to endure * New York Review of Books *
Currently I'm reading John Cheever's Collected Stories. My God, he was good -- David Mitchell
'The Swimmer' is a masterpiece of mystery, language and sorrow -- Michael Chabon
I reread Cheever's 'The Swimmer' late the other night. It had the effect that reading Cheever always has: it made me want to get up and start the futile task of trying to write something as measured yet mysteriously, heart-judderingly unexpected for myself -- Gordon Burns * Sunday Times *
Magnificently touching, moving and funny, and often set in an imaginary but archetypically well-heeled American suburb -- Jan Morris
John Cheever understood fallibility and that made for the greatness in his writing * The Times *
A writer of grace and wit, quietly dealing with people, like himself, who sense that their seemly, well-respected lives are being lived upon a precipice * Sunday Times *
[They] define what a short story should be - intense, moving and resonant -- Meaghan Delahunt * Scotsman, Books of the Year *