Essential Cheever

Here are two magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebratesamp;#8212with unequaled grace and tendernessamp;#8212the deepest feelings we have.

As Cheever wrote, "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."