The World of Apples Author:John Cheever John Cheever seduces you into this-moment America. Strange and improbable events befall Cheever's people, and innocent, old-fashioned, self-aware, often hilariously funny, they find ways to survive. An old poet surmounts the obsession to write pornography; a suburbanite lives through his wife's becoming a nude performer. With "quirky nostalgi... more »a, gentle mystery, melancholy fantasy . . . Cheever is still the master at portraying suburbia as a curdled Camelot for the modern soul." --Newsweek« less