num_pages: 158
description: Innocent, old-fashioned, self-aware, Cheever's people are summoned by strange and improbable events to ponder the values they have been taught to trust...decency, common sense, nostalgia, even truth. Stunned by these encounters, they nevertheless survive. A worn-out poet finds peace in his heart as he lays his Lermontov medal at the foot of the sacred angel; a prosperous suburbanite contemplates his predicament when his wife joins the cast of a nude show; a guileless and romantic well digger, anxious for a bride, visits Russia, falls in love and returns home "singing the unreality blues"; and a miserably married man fantasizes a beautiful lover who comes to him for strength, love and counsel while he tends the charcoal grill in the backyard.
language: English
title: The World of Apples
titlecomplete: The World of Apples
genres: Classics, Fiction, Short Stories, Literature
ratings_count: 320
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Grand Central Pub