Title: Quantity over quality
Product review: That's not necessarily a bad thing, though.There are the classics, like "The Swimmer", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill", and my personal favorite, "Reunion", which more than live up to the hype. Then there are the rest, which are a notch below. Some are boring, some are unsatisfying, and some just flat out go on too long and don't know when to end. Still, when taken as a whole, these stories provide a fascinating glimpse into the lives of those living in the East coast after the second World War, urban and suburban, rich and poor, successful and unsuccessful.As Cheever notes in his fascinating introduction, reading these stories is sometimes like taking a glimpse into a lost and vanished world. Still, it's a world which he captures in exacting and thorough detail, in his own unique voice, and that reason alone makes this a compelling and rewarding collection, that, in its totality,is a classic.
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