The World of Apples Author:John Cheever "John Cheever is our best living story writer of short stories." -John Leonard, Atlantic Monthly — 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 por... more »nography; a suburbanite lives through his wife's becoming a nude performer. With "quirky nostalgia, gently mystery, melancholy fantasy...Cheever is still the master of portraying suburbia as a curdled Camelot for the modern soul." -Newsweek« less