被誉为“郊外契诃夫”的美国著名作家———约翰·契弗（ＪｏｈｎＣｈｅｅｖｅｒ）曾因其在短篇小说上的突出成就而获得多种文学奖。他笔下的人物多取材于美国东北部的中产阶级，他善于描写他们的普通生活，揭露他们精神上的孤独与空虚。作为二战以后新文学的代表作家之一... John Cheever, a famous American writer hailed as “Chekhov on the outskirts,” won many literary awards for his outstanding achievements in short stories. His characters are mostly drawn from the middle class in the northeastern United States. He is good at describing their ordinary life and exposing their spiritual loneliness and emptiness. As one of the representative writers of new literature after World War II ...