Description
ISBN: 0394483464
Title: The World of Apples
Author: Cheever, John
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Publication Date: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Book Condition: NF
D-j Condition: VG-
Comments: D-j chipped on bottom of front cover. Front of d-j is lightly soiled.
Synopsis: Innocent, old-fashioned, self-aware, Cheever’s people are summoned by strange and improbable events to ponder the values they have been taught to trust…decency, common sense, nostalgia, even truth. Stunned by these encounters, they nevertheless survive.
A worn-out poet finds peace in his heart as he lays his Lermontov medal at the foot of the sacred angel; a prosperous suburbanite contemplates his predicament when his wife joins the cast of a nude show; a guileless and romantic well digger, anxious for a bride, visits Russia, falls in love and returns home “singing the unreality blues;” and a miserably married man fantasizes a beautiful lover who comes to him for strength, love and counsel while he tends the charcoal grill in the backyard.
