Published by Vintage 1998
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Copyright © John Cheever 1959, 1961, 1962,
1963, 1964
Foreword copyright © Dave Eggers 2003
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Six parts of this book appeared in The New Yorker and one in Esquire and the author is grateful to the editors for their permission to reprint
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First published in Great Britain by Harper in 1964 First published by Vintage in 1998
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