Two lovers walk into a cafe. The woman leaves, presumably to use the bathroom. The man hears nothing from her for three years. He feels as if he'd lost an organ, and just as he's come to a kind of truce with himself, he answers the phone. It's her. She invites him to a party...
It's short and brilliant. Let's read it, and then chat. The hardcover is out, or you can pre-oder the paperback on amazon.
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A MASTERPIECE FROM JOHN CHEEVER
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*The Wapshot Chronicle is John Cheever's first novel, published in 1957,
and it is a timeless masterpiece of expressing the sorrow, the pity and the
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