The Enormous Radio

Name: The Enormous Radio
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: John Cheever
ISBN: 9780061968600

Author: John Cheever

Narrator: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever, Peter Gallagher

Unabridged: 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Caedmon

Published: 09/22/2009

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Short Stories, City Life

Synopsis

Performed by Meryl StreepHere 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 Jmlanier1 on February 19, 2025

This contains two (2) short stories: The Swimmer and The Enormous Radio. I checked this out from the library just to read The Swimmer but found it to be just ok. On the other hand, I found The Enormous Radio to be very intriguing and suspenseful. Think of an audio version of Hitchcock’s Rear Window.......more

Goodreads review by Sam on March 07, 2025

This is a 3.5, idk why there isn’t an individual entry for the enormous radio for me to log but whateva......more

Goodreads review by Dody on December 23, 2022

Worth it to listen to the stories.......more

Goodreads review by Todd on November 19, 2024

Short stories......more

Goodreads review by Monique on June 09, 2022

I'm glad I finally read Cheever. This book was enough to pique my curiosity for more.......more