"A Vision of the World : Selected Short Stories" by John Cheever

Selected and Introduced by Booker-Prize winner Julian Barnes' 

In a career that spanned nearly fifty years, Cheever's short stories, often published in the New Yorker, gave voice to the repressed desires and smouldering disappointments of 1950s America as it teetered on the edge of spiritual awakening and sexual liberation in the ensuing decades. Selected for the first time, these satirical, fantastical, sad and transcendent stories show Cheever in all his brilliance and continue to speak directly to the heart of human experience.