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| Preface | ||
| 1 | Prelude: "This Is Really Easy" | 1 |
| 2 | "A Splendid Idea" | 5 |
| 3 | "I Suppose You Could Say They Haven't Been Delivered" | 12 |
| 4 | "A Perfect Agent for the Eighties" | 23 |
| 5 | "John's Poor Little Stories" | 28 |
| 6 | "Serious Inequities in the Contract" | 32 |
| 7 | "They're My Only Children" | 40 |
| 8 | "Cheever Clout" | 47 |
| 9 | "Franklin Thinks Maybe the Cheevers Won't Like It" | 50 |
| 10 | "The Cheevers' Concern about Premature Publicity" | 55 |
| 11 | "It's Matter of Honor" | 58 |
| 12 | "The Work Is of Grossly Substandard Quality" | 64 |
| 13 | Hearing in White Plains: "They Are Not the Stories of John Cheever" | 70 |
| 14 | "It Competes Directly with the Published Literature of John Cheever" | 82 |
| 15 | "I Want You to Publish This Book" | 85 |
| 16 | The Royce Hotel: "You Won't Sell as Many Books as Random House" | 90 |
| 17 | "As If This Were Dirty Laundry .... Gossip" | 100 |
| 18 | Mary Cheever's Deposition: "I Would Like This Creep to Finish" | 107 |
| 19 | Franklin Dennis's Deposition: "I'm Going to Ask the Witness Not to Speak with His Attorney" | 115 |
| 20 | Susan Cheever's Deposition: "They Are Essentially Package Engineers Rather Than Publishers" | 131 |
| 21 | Ben Cheever's Deposition: "I Don't Know a Lot about What Is in This Xerox" | 141 |
| 22 | Andrew Wylie's Deposition: "What Was the Man's Name?" | 147 |
| 23 | Evidentiary Hearing, White Plains, Day 1, A.M.: "Is That the One They Made into a Movie?" | 154 |
| 24 | Evidentiary Hearing, White Plains, Day 1, P.M.: "Which President Were You Speaking Of?" | 171 |
| 25 | Evidentiary Hearing, Day 2, A.M.: "Who Is the Beggar?" | 184 |
| 26 | Evidentiary Hearing, Day 2, P.M.: "Do You Contend That She Knew What She Was Doing When She Did That?" | 205 |
| 27 | Interlude between Courtrooms: "The Second Thing They Do, Is They Come before You in a Judge Bash" | 214 |
| 28 | Goettel's Opinion: "All Plaintiffs Will Prevail" | 226 |
| 29 | "It Looks Like It's Going to Be Relatively Easy" | 231 |
| 30 | "You Don't See a Moral Issue Here?" | 236 |
| 31 | Chicago Trial, Days 1 and 2: "They Could Be Bad, They Could Be Good, That Is Not the Issue" | 242 |
| 32 | Chicago Trial, Day 3: "Welcome to Our Fair City" | 251 |
| 33 | Judge Kiley's Decision: "Most of the Dispute Has Been Decided" | 258 |
| 34 | "A Literary Gold Mine" | 266 |
| 35 | "John Was the King of Hades" | 272 |
| 36 | "Paul Is Named Jack and Mani Is Amy" | 278 |
| 37 | "It Becomes Like a Garbage Can of Stories" | 285 |
| 38 | "Enforcing a Contract for Mary Cheever" | 292 |
| 39 | "Mrs. Cheever Loves Those Stories" | 296 |
| 40 | "Small Press, Small Book" | 302 |
| 41 | "It's Still a Very Good Idea, in the Abstract" | 308 |
| 42 | "It's Like Getting a Cancer off Your Back" | 312 |
| 43 | A Hellabaloo | 318 |
| 44 | "Father Sells Best" | 325 |
| 45 | Another Moral Issue | 329 |
| 46 | "A Fascinating Example of One Writer's Beginning" | 336 |
| Sources and Notes | 340 | |
| App. A | The Publishing Agreement | 349 |
| App. B | Chronology, Lawyers, and the Uncollected Stories List | 353 |
| Name Index | 358 | |
| About the Author | 364 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Darcy Watt
reviewed Uncollecting Cheever: The Family of John Cheever vs. Academy Chicago Publishers on March 06, 2010
Uncollecting Cheever: The Family of John Cheever vs. Academy Chicago Publishers
If you love HJ's style and are charmed by Italian cities and towns, this is a must read. But, if you find James' writing unbearable, regardless of how much you adore Italy, don't bother -- he's as fusty, complex, and interminable as ever here. And I was smiling on every page.
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