John Cheever is an outstanding American writer, a recognized classic of American literature of the 20th century, the author of many stories and novels ("Bullet Park", "Falconer", "The Wapshot Family Chronicle", "A Scandal in the Wapshot Family"). John Cheever is a brilliant short story writer, and it is as a master of the story that he is known. Cheever is an admirer and grateful student of A.P. Chekhov, O. Henry, Sherwood Anderson and E. Hemingway. His prose is characterized by a combination of intrigue, deep psychologism and humor, sometimes quite dark. His characters long to find love and be happy and don’t understand why they can’t, but despite everything they don’t lose hope. This edition contains stories from the collection “Giant Radio and Other Stories” by John Cheever, published in translations by T. Litvinova: “Treasure”, “City of Broken Hopes”, “Children”, “Cruel Romance”, “The Manager”, “Giant Radio” ", "Christmas", "Marriage", "The Adventure of Sutton Place".