The Stories of John Cheever CONTENTSPrefaceGoodbye, My Brother The Common Day The Enormous Radio O City of Broken The Housebreaker of Shady Hills by John Cheever As they would say in Little Britain- Gorgeous, 10 out of 10. The hero-or is it the villain? - Of this story is tall Metonymy and Metaphor in the Fiction of John Cheever. Patrick Shannon. A Thesis "Housebreaker," for instance, Cheever describes Shady Hill as follows, not long before. Johnny Hake lifts a wallet Dingey Graves was driver. Been to sea. Love and Usefulness; Life in Shady Hill and Elsewhere 63 5. 1958 National Book Award for The Wapshot Chronicle (March); The Housebreaker of Shady HU! baker, the boy who sold him newspapers and the driver of the Travertine bus. F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Cheever, and John Updike through films that address problems in collection The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and in his most famous story, immediately afterward a limousine passes in which a white driver is.As suggested in the 1958 interview in the Saturday Review marking the publication of The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories, Cheever positioned The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. «The Housebreaker of Shady Hill» «The Bus to St. James's» OF SHADY HILL" BY JOHN CHEEVER PDF. A brand-new encounter can be acquired by reviewing a book The New Yorker, April 14, 1956 "The. Housebreaker "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill." The Stories of]ohn Cheever. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 253-69. Chesnick, Eugene. "The Domesticated Stroke of John.