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  <title><![CDATA[The Enormous Radio (Creative Short Stories)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a happy ending? No matter what their taste, our Creative Short Stories series has the answer.

We've taken some of the world's best stories from dark, musty anthologies and brought them into the light, giving them the individual attention they deserve. Each book in the series has been designed with today's young reader in mind. As the words come to life, students will develop a lasting appreciation for great literature.

The humor of Mark Twain...the suspense of Edgar Allan Poe...the danger of Jack London...the sensitivity of Katherine Mansfield. Creative Short Stories has it all and will prove to be a welcome addition to any library. </default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1953</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Cheever]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some first-rate writing here.  Highlights for me were &quot;Goodbye, My Brother,&quot; &quot;The Pot Of Gold,&quot; &quot;The Cure,&quot; and of course, the title story.  In most of these stories, a couple (or sometimes a single man) struggle, usually financially.  The wealthier families are unhappy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28536029">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I heard an interview on public radio with someone who had just finished writing a biography of John Cheever.  I thought...&quot;I've never read Cheever, I should to that.&quot; so I found a book of short stories.  I guess I'm just not a classics sort of reader, there was only one story I liked, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49629857">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Cheever is a master of the short story. Each tale draws the reader in immediately with a description of a bizarre scenario or of a character's bizarre attributes. With astute attention to character detail, he nails down human oddities, like one character's paranoia of waking up in the middle of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40707118">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA['Goodbye, my brother' is amazing. Love.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Irene Fuller is a bored and lonely New York housewife. When her radio stops working and a new one arrives, she starts to hear more than just the programmes that break the silence of her apartment.<br/><br/><br/>The ending ... give me a clue!<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I finally got around to reading this, the buildup had been so great I figured it could only disappoint. But it was good, and in surprising ways -- no one had ever told me how funny Cheever is, for instance.]]></body>
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