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Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico and Eric Haralson, State University of New York, Stony Brook. This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major modern and contemporary short story writers worldwide. Each volume offers: a comprehensive overview of the artists short fiction-including detailed analyses of every significant story; interviews, essays, memoirs and other biographical materials -- often previously unpublished; a representative selection of critical responses; and a comprehensive primary bibliography, a selected bibliography of important criticism, a chronology of the artists life and works and an index.

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In the only study devoted exclusively to Cheever's short stories, O'Hara traces the development of Cheever's short fiction over a period of 51 years during which he published 170 short stories. O'Hara believes that Cheever's short stories are better than his novels, which "only served to detract from his true vocation as a short story writer." Although Donaldson's biography, John Cheever (1988), reads Cheever's fiction autobiographically, O'Hara properly focuses on the stories as art, which at worst are often overly optimistic but at best plumbed the depths of common human experience. Far better than S. Coale's John Cheever (CH, May'78), more concerned with theme than L. Waldeland's John Cheever (CH, Feb'80), and a good supplement to G.W. Hunt's John Cheever: The Hobgoblin Company of Love (CH, Feb'84). O'Hara's short but perceptive examination of Cheever's short stories is a helpful introduction to the short fiction of an important writer. The inclusion of some of Cheever's letters and interviews and of a few critical essays on Cheever supplements O'Hara's assessment of Cheever. Selected bibliography. Recommended at all levels, but especially for undergraduate libraries. -E. Suderman, Gustavus Adolphus College