 First edition cover | |
| Author | John Cheever |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Harper & Bros. |
Publication date | 1958 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 185 |
| ISBN | 0523123183 |
The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by John Cheever. Composed of eight short stories, the volume was first published by Harper & Bros. in 1958. Reissued by Hillman/MacFadden in 1961, the works are included in The Stories of John Cheever (1978). The works were originally published individually in The New Yorker.[1][2]
All the stories are set in the fictional New England town of Shady Hill, where the suburbanite residents exist in an allegorical Hades: "a nice house with a garden and a place outside for cooking meat," and where "there was no turpitude; there had not been a divorce…there had not even been a breath of scandal."[3][4][5][6]
- ^ Yardley, 2004: "published in 1961 by the long-departed firm of Hillman/MacFadden…all eight stories are in The Stories of John Cheever."
- ^ Bailey, 2009 (1) p. 1025: Published 1958 by Harper and Bros.
- ^ Yardley, 2004: "The second of those quotations comes from "The Country Husband" (the first is from the title story)."
- ^ Meanor, 1995 p. 70-71, p. 76
- ^ Meanor, 1995 p. 70: "Cheever established his urban underworld as Shady Hill in the 1958 short-story collection The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories."
- ^ Waldeland, 1979 p. 63