Here is the preface to twelve magnificent stories, originally part ofThe John Cheever AudioCollection, 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." |