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...Swimmer," one of Cheever's best known works, is about an upper class man who makes a journey around his suburban country by swimming through his neighbors' pools...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Cheever Reads His Stories And Discusses Their Meaning | 12/2/1977 | See Source »

Peter N. Baker '78 said last night he enjoyed Cheever's "sense of humor and self-awareness." David B. Gootnick '78 said Cheever's stories are interesting "comments on his own WASPishness...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Cheever Reads His Stories And Discusses Their Meaning | 12/2/1977 | See Source »

...stories I like most I write in the space of 24 hours," Cheever said. "I get excited and have a marvelous time running around the house," he said...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Cheever Reads His Stories And Discusses Their Meaning | 12/2/1977 | See Source »

...Cheever said many of his works center on his concern for confinement and liberty. His short stories have shown the "spiritual confinements" of suburbanites, businessmen and expatriates, he added...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Cheever Reads His Stories And Discusses Their Meaning | 12/2/1977 | See Source »

...President of the Argentine," which Cheever wrote in Boston two years ago, describes an encounter between a man who wants to put his hat on a statue and a girl who is studying embalming...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Cheever Reads His Stories And Discusses Their Meaning | 12/2/1977 | See Source »

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