O City of Broken Dreams, John Cheever
O City of Broken Dreams, John Cheever
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O City of Broken Dreams

Author: John Cheever

Narrator: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever, Peter Gallagher

Unabridged: 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Caedmon

Published: 09/22/2009


Synopsis

Performed by Blythe DannerHere is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""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.""

About John Cheever

John Cheever, best known for his short stories dealing with upper-middle-class suburban life, was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. Cheever published his first short story at the age of seventeen. He was the recipient of a 1951 Guggenheim Fellowship and winner of a National Book Award for The Wapshot Chronicle in 1958, the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Stories of John Cheever, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and an American Book Award. He died in 1982, at the age of seventy.

About Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep has been nominated for an Academy Award® thirteen times, winning twice. Her numerous film credits include The Deer Hunter, Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice, Out of Africa, The Bridges of Madison County, Adaptation, and The Hours.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sinem A. on July 13, 2018

Ergenliğinizin ilk zamanları.. Aşık olduğumuz kişi ile öyle bir an yaşamışsın ki artık duygularınızın karşılıklı olduğundan neredeyse eminsiniz. Batın bölgenizdeki aksiyonu tarif etmekte rüzgarda salınan dallar, uçuşan kuşlar ya da kelebekler kifayetsiz kalıyor. Ve tüm bunları odanızdaki pencereden......more

Goodreads review by Dragos on June 16, 2014

acest volumaș de 13 povestiri ale lui john cheever, apărut în 1983 la editura univers în traducerea lui florin constantin pavlovici cuprinde primele povestiri ale scriitorului american, dar și câteva dintre cele ulterioare. este, de asemenea, al doilea volum de povestiri pe care îl citesc, după fidel......more

Goodreads review by Kansas on May 26, 2019

Los Malloy van en tren camino de Nueva York en busca de promesas de éxito que las han hecho. Son ingenuos y provincianos y en Nueva York se las ven con agentes artisticos que no conocen los escrúpulos y pronto se dan cuenta que las promesas no eran mas que eso, promesas. Cheever consigue que nos pr......more

Goodreads review by Kelly_Hunsaker_reads on August 09, 2020

O City of Broken Dreams was first published in The New Yorker in 1948, and alter as a part of The Collected Stories of John Cheever which won the Pulitzer Prize. I listened to the audio version of this story alone. The only other story by Cheever that I have read is The Enormous Radio, and while I l......more

Goodreads review by Neşet on May 30, 2018

Yüzücü'deki öyküler Dev Radyo, Güle Güle Kardeşim, Yüzücü şahaneydi. Ey Yıkılmış Hayaller Şehri de çok iyi, artık kendi evrenini yarattığının farkına varan John Cheever, ''banliyölerden arketip yarattığı karakter'' öykücülüğünde iyice derine dalmış. Geriye kalan 3 öykü kitabı daha var ve tekrara düş......more