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Charlie the narrator tells of an afternoon meeting with his father whilst transferring trains at Grand Central Station in New York.
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Fiction. Reunion. By John Cheever. October 19, 1962. The New Yorker, October 27, 1962 P. 45. Short story in which the narrator recalls the last time he saw his father.
“Reunion” is a short story by the American writer John Cheever,[1] first published in the October 27, 1962 issue of The New Yorker, and later collected in The Stories of John Cheever (1978).
‘Reunion’ is a 1962 short story by the American writer John Cheever (1912-82). In the story, a young man meets up for a reunion with his father, but his father’s rude manner leads to their reunion being a failure.
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“Reunion” is a short story by John Cheever, first published in 1962. It’s the story of a boy who spends a lunchtime layover in New York near Grand Central Station with his father, whom he hasn’t seen in three years. It’s a frequently anthologized story, and one of Cheever’s shortest.