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The John Cheever Audio Collection (Unabridged Stories)
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Resumen del Editor
Here is the preface to 12 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."
Reseñas de la Crítica
"A remarkable treat for lovers of audiobooks...The inclusion of Cheever's readings makes for a deeply personal, resonant finale to a truly superb production." (Publishers Weekly)
"If you've ever wished the characters in an Edward Hopper painting would come alive and tell their stories, then don't miss this luminous recording....An incomparable set of narrators delivers the stories with perfection." (AudioFile)
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This is Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. The 12 stories in Cathedral mark a turning point in Carver's work.
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Disaffected performance
- De Tom Broderick en 07-22-17
De: Raymond Carver
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Humboldt's Gift
- De: Saul Bellow
- Narrado por: Christopher Hurt
- Duración: 18 h y 5 m
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For years, they were the best of friends: the grand, erratic Humboldt and the ambitious young Charlie. But now Humboldt has died a failure, and Charlie's success-ridden life has taken various turns for the worse. Then Humboldt acts from the grave to change Charlie's life: he has left Charlie something in his will.
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Great Book, Great Reader
- De Scott en 05-10-08
De: Saul Bellow
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Our Man in Havana
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true....
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what a funny, silly story wrapped up in espionage.
- De Robert S Pringle en 08-14-24
De: Graham Greene
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The Sun Also Rises
- De: Ernest Hemingway, Colm Toibin
- Narrado por: William Hurt
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, The Sun Also Rises introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. In his first great literary masterpiece, Hemingway portrays an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions.
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Great actor, terrible reader, kills classic
- De Kerry en 09-14-14
De: Ernest Hemingway, y otros
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Wonderful Town
- New York Stories from The New Yorker
- De: Woody Allen, John Cheever, E. B. White, y otros
- Narrado por: Tyne Daly, Timothy Jerome, Joe Morton, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the 75-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of 44 of its best stories from (so to speak) home.
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Great stories and readers, but technically sloppy
- De Alison en 09-08-04
De: Woody Allen, y otros
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Goodbye, Columbus
- And Five Short Stories
- De: Philip Roth
- Narrado por: Ramiz Monsef, Jonathan Davis, Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin. Neil comes from poor Newark, while Brenda is of suburban Short Hills. On one summer break, they meet and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. The novella is accompanied by five short stories that range in tone from the iconoclastic to the astonishingly tender.
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The Executioner's Song
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Maxwell Hamilton
- Duración: 42 h y 37 m
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Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore now in audio. Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, The Executioner's Song follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood. After being tried and convicted, he immediately insisted on being executed for his crime. To do so, he fought a system that seemed intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death.
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Pulitzer-winner spoiled by numskulled narration
- De W Perry Hall en 05-21-18
De: Norman Mailer
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Arrowsmith
- De: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 20 h y 41 m
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Martin Arrowsmith is fascinated by science and medicine. As a boy, he immerses himself in Gray’s Anatomy. In medical school, he soaks up knowledge from his mentor, a renowned bacteriologist. But soon he is urged to focus on politics and promotions rather than his research. Even as Martin progresses from doctor to public health official and noted pathologist, he still yearns to devote his time to pure science.
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Still Relevant
- De Forrest en 02-26-12
De: Sinclair Lewis
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The Adventures of Augie March
- De: Saul Bellow
- Narrado por: Tom Parker
- Duración: 22 h y 13 m
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Augie is a poor but exuberant boy growing up in Chicago during the Depression. While his friends all settle into chosen professions, Augie demands a special destiny. He tests out a wild succession of occupations, proudly rejecting each as too limiting - until he tangles with the glamorous perfectionist Thea.
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THAT part of the Universe visible from Chicago!
- De Darwin8u en 05-09-12
De: Saul Bellow
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Where I'm Calling From
- Selected Stories
- De: Raymond Carver
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
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By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompasses classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form.
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Love Carver, But Dietz Ruins It With Reading
- De Noirbat en 05-10-18
De: Raymond Carver
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The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story
- De: John Freeman - editor
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett, Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 11 m
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In the past 50 years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of genres have brought this unique US genre a thrilling burst of energy. This rich anthology celebrates this avalanche of talent. Beginning in 1970, it culls together a half century of powerful American short stories from all genres, including - for the first time in a literary anthology - science fiction, horror, and fantasy.
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Too dark for my taste
- De Lazy Chicken en 10-03-22
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All the King's Men
- De: Robert Penn Warren
- Narrado por: Michael Emerson
- Duración: 20 h y 52 m
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The fictionalized account of Louisiana's colorful and notorious governor, Huey Pierce Long, All the King's Men follows the startling rise and fall of Willie Stark, a country lawyer in the Deep South of the 1930s. Beset by political enemies, Stark seeks aid from his right-hand man Jack Burden, who will bear witness to the cataclysmic unfolding of this very American tragedy.
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Beautifully presented
- De Cheimon en 10-12-08
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The John Cheever Audio Collection (Unabridged Stories)
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- Love owls
- 09-05-17
Love John Cheever !
I love John Cheever.His stories are set in his native territory of New York and its suburbs. He captures the challenges of his and his parents generation. From the upper middle cpas to their help, he is empathic. He has a sense of humor as well.
I liked the choice of narrators as well.
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- Greg
- 03-03-04
All Stars Deliver
One wonders how it would be possible that an Audiobook of John Cheever's stories read by the likes of Ms. Streep and Mr. Plimpton could disappoint. Be calmed dear listener... no such disillusionment will be found here.
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- Miranda
- 12-16-08
Great readers - fabulous stories
John CHeever's stories are sharp, surreal, funny, touching but always immediate. This fantastic collection covering his long writing life is presented by a phenomenal group of readers ... Meryl Streep, Blythe Danner, George Plimpton. Well done Caedmon!
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- W Perry Hall
- 12-17-15
All A's - Adultery, Alcoholism, Abjection
At times I wish I could be more learned or cultured so I could *enjoy* and *appreciate* such a bleak set of stories. In those times, I wonder if I suffer as a result of my deficiencies. Maybe not. I've savored three recent phenomenal sets of stories that include within them themes with a melancholy bent: National Book Award-winning "Fortune Smiles: Stories" by Adam Johnson, "Thirteen Ways of Looking: Fiction," by Colum McCann, and "The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories," by Anthony Marra. The difference, I think, lies in whether the stories as a set reveal some glimpse of hope in humanity, some hint of redemption or forgiveness, some implication that evil has been or may be defeated in a battle of the forces--just one battle, for I don't suffer the delusion that good will conquer evil for all time, so long as humans live on this Earth.
With this collection, I just have a hard time seeing the redemptive. If this classifies me as a naive idealist or a resident of a fantasy world, then so be it.
Cheever's most famous story, "The Enormous Radio" (1947), serves to illustrate why I'm not particularly fond of this set of stories. In it, an NYC husband buys a "dark" gumwood cabinet radio (back when the radio was centerpiece furniture) for his family's 12th floor apartment despite their inability to afford it. When The Enormous Radio begins picking up conversations from others in their building, they are fascinated then shocked by some of the conversations and happenings. The wife (homemaker) becomes obsessed with a near-constant eavesdropping, which turns to fear that others can hear her family's conversations, and then becomes depressed from her steady consumption of the problems of an entire building. I won't say more about the story except that this collection to me is much like the Enormous Radio in that I get depressed hearing about others' (even fictional others') adultery, alcoholism and domestic abjection (all of these stories touch on one of these 3 areas) without a silver lining SOMEWHERE.
Don't misunderstand me. John Cheever certainly wrote the types of stories I appreciate and enjoy, including a few in this assortment. And yet, as a whole, this selection acts as quite a depressant. Oh, to be sure, these stories were likely grand in the late 40s through the early 1970s when they were written since they showed that the shiny, happy people from the City (in his early years) and the suburbs (in his later) suffering problems that Hollywood would not show on the television, in shows like "I Love Lucy," "Leave it to Beaver," "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," and "Father Knows Best."
My favorite of these collected stories is "The Sorrows of Gin," in which a pre-teen daughter named Amy watches her parents get deeper and deeper into the bottle, attending parties nearly every night and rarely having an interest in Amy or her life. Cheever could write this from experience, as a lifelong alcoholic whose relationships were decimated by his alcohol abuse. I have not read or seen a story that so distilled (pun intended) the negative effects of alcoholism on a family. I said "alcoholism," not "alcohol"--most people can drink in moderation and only occasionally; the alcoholic, for whatever reason, cannot. Here, the selfish parents are more concerned with the next party, next drink, and thus steal time, love and care from their daughter. In a way so superbly shown in the story, Amy's reaction and attempt to "save" her parents leads to an unexpected demoralization of the family unit.
The narrators of this collection are excellent actors, all of them, including Blythe Danner, Meryl Streep and the late, great Edward Herrmann.
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- A. Larson
- 01-07-16
Fantastic collection and narration
What did you love best about The John Cheever Audio Collection (Unabridged Stories)?
The stories and narration were superb. Until the last two stories, which Cheever narrated. His voice wasn't the greatest.
Any additional comments?
I wish there were more collections of this quality.
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- Michael L. Seeger
- 09-09-21
Cheever’s Not a skilled narrator
He might tell you that himself if he were still alive.
The writing is impeccable and the other narrators
skilled and professional
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- Yelverton Crowe
- 04-26-17
warm nostalgia
a lovely glimpse into recent discarded societies
reasonably balanced performances
the end came too quickly for me
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- hhe
- 08-07-07
Ballads for the Broken
The beauty of reading John Cheever is in getting to know so many damaged characters. Each story weaves a web of hope and folly, deceit and yearning. Many of the men in these stories take solace outside their marriages, but none for the same reasons and none of those reasons is sexual. Also, Cheever has a tendency to glorify youth through similar metaphors in these stories, though it comes across more as a genuine affinity for the young rather than lazy writing. These are tales of a forgotten American past, though their settings are as mundane and tried as many novice writers. Cheever's gifts are not in his creation of a world, but instead of a worldview. His is a world filled with confusion and good intentions.
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- kmilesmcleod
- 03-19-24
Hilarious, dark, sometimes disturbing
Cheever’s short stories quickly and vibrantly come alive with the narrators readings. The stories are full of a dark, humorous take on life in the Northeast.
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- Nancy F. Lincoln
- 05-03-19
Choice Cheever
I just finished reading Blake Baileys troubling but excellent biography of Cheever who has been one of my favorite authors since the 60. The bio painted such a dark picture of the man I was desperate to hear his voice an an author and this collection reminded me why I love him so. Also wonderful to hear him reading his own works with that affected Boston brahmin accent which illustrated much of what was said in the bio but is also rather endearing.
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