- Published: 22 August 2023
- ISBN: 9781784875831
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $22.99
A Vision of the World
Selected Short Stories

















- Published: 22 August 2023
- ISBN: 9781784875831
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $22.99
There was a time in my life when I thought I would have to find a support group for people who loved Cheever as much as I do… I would write out his sentences by hand at times to see what does that feel like, to be able to have that felicity of language
Elizabeth Strout
As stories go, as compellingly readable narratives of a certain sort of people in a certain time and place — our time and place—John Cheever's stories are, simply, the best
Washington Post
John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice, in his luminous short stories…is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature
Philip Roth
Cheever shows a sublime psychological understanding of all that goes unsaid – whatever’s not mentioned between couples is fully present and felt
A M Homes
Ultimately, it is the stories which make the case for Cheever as a great American writer, one who continues to deserve our attention and admiration
Jay McInerney
John Cheever has a voice filled with irony and comedy and pain that, on some level, I’m always seeking to emulate
Matthew Weiner, Creator of Mad Men
Profound and daring...some of the most wonderful stories any American has written
Boston Globe
[Cheever's] magical capacity for marrying the quotidian with the surreal, so often soars. The new volume feels capacious, stuffed as it is with wonders
Adam Begley, Sunday Times
One of the great writers of the previous century
John Self, The Times
Going back to these stories decades after first reading them, I remember what brought me to them in my youth. I loved them because of their relationship to the truth, which is always lurking, waiting to break through the surface of the characters' lives... the way Cheever moved on the page, how he could shift and shift again from paragraph to paragraph, how he could swoop from the mundane to the tragic, which just a comma in between
Anne Enright, Times Literary Supplement
Reading Cheever is a restless pleasure, the work never settles: these brilliant stories make me get up and walk around the room
Anne Enright
[Cheever's] magical capacity for marrying the quotidian with the surreal, so often soars. The new volume feels capacious, stuffed as it is with wonders
Sunday Times
There was a time in my life when I thought I would have to find a support group for people who loved Cheever as much as I do... I would write out his sentences by hand at times to see what does that feel like, to be able to have that felicity of language
Elizabeth Strout
As stories go, as compellingly readable narratives of a certain sort of people in a certain time and place - our time and place-John Cheever's stories are, simply, the best
Washington Post
John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice, in his luminous short stories...is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature
Philip Roth
Profound and daring...some of the most wonderful stories any American has written
Boston Globe
Cheever shows a sublime psychological understanding of all that goes unsaid - whatever's not mentioned between couples is fully present and felt
A M Homes
One of the great writers of the previous century
John Self, The Times