These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.
John CheeverAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: May 27, 1912
- Died: June 18, 1982
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