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The Swimmer. By John Cheever. July 10, 1964. Photograph by H. Armstrong Roberts / Getty. It was one of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, “I drank too much last night ...
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July 18, 1964. " The Swimmer " is a short story by American author John Cheever. It was originally published in The New Yorker on July 18, 1964, and later in the short-fiction collections The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964) and The Stories of John Cheever (1978). [1] Considered one of the author's most outstanding works, "The Swimmer" has ...
‘The Swimmer’ is a 1964 short story by the American writer John Cheever (1912-82), published in his collection The Brigadier and the Golf Widow. Cheever’s best-known story, ‘The Swimmer’ is about a middle-aged married man who decides to travel home from his friends’ house one summer afternoon, swimming in the various swimming pools he encounters on his route.
Overview. “The Swimmer” is a 1964 short story by American author John Cheever that tells the story of Neddy Merrill, an affluent suburbanite who decides to swim home through all the pools in his neighborhood. As he progresses through the pools, however, he begins to realize that something is not quite right. Cheever's narrative explores ...
Jul 14, 2021 · The Swimmer by John Cheever. Publication date 1964-07-18 Topics cheever, short story Collection opensource Language English. Short story. Addeddate 2021-07-14 03:55:38
The Swimmer, short story by John Cheever, published in The New Yorker (July 18, 1964) and collected in The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964). A masterful blend of fantasy and reality, it chronicles a middle-aged man’s gradual acceptance of the truth that he has avoided facing—that his life is in
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Swimmer’ (1964) is John Cheever’s best-known story. This tale, which fuses realist and surrealist elements, is about a middle-aged married man who decides to travel home from his friends’ house one summer afternoon, swimming in the various swimming pools he encounters on his route.
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