Cheever’s accomplishment in his exacting art is proportionally large, as solid as it is brilliant, and likely to endure
New York Review of Books

Cheever’s accomplishment in his exacting art is proportionally large, as solid as it is brilliant, and likely to endure
New York Review of Books

Currently I'm reading John Cheever's Collected Stories. My God, he was good
David Mitchell,

Currently I'm reading John Cheever's Collected Stories. My God, he was good
David Mitchell,

’The Swimmer’ is a masterpiece of mystery, language and sorrow
Michael Chabon,

’The Swimmer’ is a masterpiece of mystery, language and sorrow
Michael Chabon,

I reread Cheever's ‘The Swimmer’ late the other night. It had the effect that reading Cheever always has: it made me want to get up and start the futile task of trying to write something as measured yet mysteriously, heart-judderingly unexpected for myself
Gordon Burns, Sunday Times

I reread Cheever's ‘The Swimmer’ late the other night. It had the effect that reading Cheever always has: it made me want to get up and start the futile task of trying to write something as measured yet mysteriously, heart-judderingly unexpected for myself
Gordon Burns, Sunday Times

Magnificently touching, moving and funny, and often set in an imaginary but archetypically well-heeled American suburb
Jan Morris,

Magnificently touching, moving and funny, and often set in an imaginary but archetypically well-heeled American suburb
Jan Morris,

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

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

A writer of grace and wit, quietly dealing with people, like himself, who sense that their seemly, well-respected lives are being lived upon a precipice
Sunday Times

A writer of grace and wit, quietly dealing with people, like himself, who sense that their seemly, well-respected lives are being lived upon a precipice
Sunday Times

[They] define what a short story should be – intense, moving and resonant
Meaghan Delahunt, Scotsman, Books of the Year

[They] define what a short story should be – intense, moving and resonant
Meaghan Delahunt, Scotsman, Books of the Year