Eleanor’s Reviews > Collected Stories > Status Update

Cheever's writing is terrific, and his worldview is much more humane than I was anticipating, but bloody HELL this is a long book. And sometimes it gets wearing, you know, to go from one story about suburban ennui to another story about suburban ennui. On the other hand, reading them all together makes his stories seem like a novel in themselves - the recurrence of Shady Hill and people like the Farquarsons, &c.