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Title: The Swimmer Title Record # 1069851
Author: John Cheever
Date: 1964-07-18
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Synopsis: Impulsively, a young man decides to make his way home by swimming through every pool in the neighborhood. The joyful lark turns darker when time begins to pass strangely.
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Year Language Title
1993Translated by an unknown translator
Italian Il nuotatore

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The New Yorker, July 18, 1964 1964-07-18 ed. Editors of the New Yorker        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
The Stories of John Cheever 1982-07-00 John Cheever Ballantine Books 0-345-28436-4
$3.50?$: US dollar
xii+
819
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Checkmark
Fictions: Second Edition 1989-00-00 ed. C. Wade Jennings, Joseph F. Trimmer Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-527326-4   xi+
1230
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Bernard Faucon  
Reel Terror 1992-04-00 ed. Sebastian Wolfe Xanadu 0-947761-53-5
£9.99?£: UK pound
249
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
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Reel Terror 1992-06-00 ed. Sebastian Wolfe Carroll & Graf 0-88184-821-2
$9.95?$: US dollar
249
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
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Brivido a 35 mm 1993-06-00 ed. Sebastian Wolfe Garden Editoriale (Horror Story #14)  
Lit 7,000?Lit: Italian lira
224
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Miani  
The Contemporary American Short Story 2004-00-00 ed. B. Minh Nguyen, Porter Shreve Longman / Pearson 0-321-11727-1   xxx+
642
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Gretchen Dow Simpson Checkmark
Adaptations: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films 2005-04-26 ed. Stephanie Harrison Three Rivers Press 1-4000-5314-5
$15.95?$: US dollar
xix+
619
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Checkmark
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction 2011-00-00 ed. Ann Charters Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press 978-0-312-59624-8   xx+
1168
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Helen Berggruen Checkmark
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