Name: Selected American Short Stories ii
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Author: John Cheever
ISBN: 9781537564548

portada Selected American Short Stories ii

Type

Physical Book

Author

Publisher

Language

English

Pages

312

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm

Weight

0.42 kg.

ISBN13

9781537564548

Synopsis "Selected American Short Stories ii"

The book collects some famous short stories by well-known American writers, some of them received prizes and honors in the US, such as Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Award for Fiction. Reading these stories is helpful to better understanding of American culture and society.

John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck (1902- 1968) was born in Salinas, California. He studied at Stanford University and during his youth worked as a laborer and fruit picker. His first success was Tortilla Flat (1935), a story between picaresque and romantic about Mexican immigrants settled around Monterey (California). In 1936, he wrote a series of seven reports for The San Francisco News, which he later published as The Harvest Gypsies. In 1939, his most famous work appeared: The Grapes of Wrath (Pulitzer Prize 1940), which tells the sad story of a family from the impoverished state of Oklahoma that migrates to California during the economic depression of the thirties; this work, received as a moving document of social protest, was adapted into a film by John Ford in 1940. Among his extensive literary work are also the novels Of Mice and Men (1936), The Pearl (1947) and East of Eden (1962), and screenplays for movies, such as the one he wrote for Viva Zapata! by Elia Kazan. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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John Cheever

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John Cheever (1912‑1982) fue un escritor estadounidense nacido en Quincy, Massachusetts, considerado uno de los grandes maestros del cuento y la novela del siglo XX. Creció en el seno de una familia de clase media cuyo auge económico declinó durante su juventud, lo que marcó su sensibilidad para retratar tensiones entre las apariencias sociales y la precariedad personal.

Desde joven mostró interés por la escritura, pero su educación formal fue irregular. Fue expulsado del Thayer Academy por fumar, lo que lo impulsó a dedicarse al cuento. Con apenas veinte años empezó a publicar en revistas literarias, y con el tiempo entabló una relación estrecha con The New Yorker, medio en el que aparecieron muchos de sus relatos más célebres.

Las historias de Cheever suelen explorar la vida de la clase media estadounidense —los suburbios, los matrimonios, las aspiraciones, las frustraciones—, revelando los contrastes entre lo que los personajes muestran al mundo y lo que sienten en su interior. También abordó temas como la soledad, el alcoholismo, los conflictos familiares, la identidad sexual y la decadencia de los valores tradicionales.

Algunas de sus obras más destacadas son The Wapshot Chronicle, Bullet Park, Falconer y su colección The Stories of John Cheever, por la que recibió el Premio Pulitzer. Murió en Ossining, Nueva York, dejando un legado literario que sigue influyendo por su estilo elegante, su dosis de melancolía y su capacidad para observar lo cotidiano y hacer de él algo universal.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (Saint Paul, Minnesota, September 24, 1896-Hollywood, California, December 21, 1940) was a military officer, host, novelist, and American writer, widely known as one of the finest authors of the 20th century, whose works are paradigmatic of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the Lost Generation of the twenties.

He wrote five novels: The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and The Last Tycoon, which, although unfinished, was published after his death. He also wrote numerous short stories, many of which deal with youth and promise, age and despair.

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