Hailed as the “Ovid of Ossining” and the “Chekhov of the Suburbs,” John Cheever emerged as one of America's most popular writers after World War II. Though an accomplished novelist, Cheever made his name as a short story writer, best exemplified by his long association with theNew Yorker. His fiction embraces the absurdity and irresistible allure of a pastoral vision in the modern era of alienation and dispossession.