Drinking
  • Published: 29 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784872649
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $12.99

Drinking

Vintage Minis

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Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between

What's the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, these are stories suffused with beauty, sadness, and the gathering storm of a bender well-done. Seen through the gin-lacquered looking glass of Cheever's writing, your next drink may have you reaching for a lime and soda instead.

Selected from the book Collected Stories by John Cheever

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A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

Also in the Vintage Minis series:
Swimming by Roger Deakin
Eating by Nigella Lawson
Calm by Tim Peaks
Love by Jeanette Winterson
  • Published: 29 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784872649
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $12.99
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Summer
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Jealousy
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Karl Ove Knausgaard
Death
Julian Barnes
Depression
William Styron
Calm
Tim Parks
Babies
Anne Enright
Sisters
Louisa May Alcott
Eating
Nigella Lawson
Desire
Haruki Murakami
Drinking
John Cheever
Language
Xiaolu Guo
Liberty
Virginia Woolf
Home
Salman Rushdie
Race
Toni Morrison
Love
Jeanette Winterson
Swimming
Roger Deakin
Freedom
Margaret Atwood
Marriage
Jane Austen
Friendship
Rose Tremain
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis
War
Sebastian Faulks
Dreams
Sigmund Freud
Rave
Irvine Welsh
Money
Yuval Noah Harari
Injustice
Richard Wright
Ghosts
M. R. James

About the author

John Cheever

John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912, and he went to school at Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1978 he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer prize. Shortly before his death in 1982 he was awarded the National Medal for Literature.

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Also by John Cheever

A Vision of the World
The Wapshot Chronicle
The Wapshot Scandal
The Journals
Oh What A Paradise It Seems
The Letters of John Cheever
Bullet Park
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Praise for Drinking

John Cheever understood fallibility and that made for the greatness in his writing

The Times

Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world’s most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human… They look good and read well. That’s win/win in our book.

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