
What's the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices & hands it to us in a highball From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet only to drown her sorrows in it to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes these are stories suffused with beauty sadness & the gathering storm of a bender well-done Seen through the gin-lacquered looking glass of Cheever's writing your next drink may have you reaching for a lime & soda instead Selected from the book Collected Stories by John Cheever VINTAGE MINIS GREAT MINDS BIG IDEAS LITTLE BOOKS A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series Swimming by Roger Deakin Eating by Nigella Lawson Calm by Tim Peaks Love by Jeanette Winterson