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May 19, 2024 · The Swimmer is an iconic 1968 American drama film based on a 1964 short story by John Cheever. Directed by Frank Perry and starring Burt Lancaster, the film tells the intriguing story of Ned Merrill, a middle-aged man who embarks on a journey to swim his way home through a series of backyard swimming pools in his affluent neighborhood.
May 23, 2024 · From John Cheever’s 1964 short story “ The Swimmer ” to Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling 2006 memoir, “ Eat, Pray, Love ,” our culture has long grappled with what it means to enter middle...
May 23, 2024 · Lancaster played the lead role in The Swimmer (1968), an adaptation of a story by John Cheever, in which the protagonist seeks to “swim home” across the backyard pools of well-heeled...
May 17, 2024 · The Swimmer. John Cheever’s short story The Swimmer is based on a literary conceit that probably has no business being a movie. Our protagonist Neddy Merrill, a hearty, hail-fellow-well-met member of Connecticut’s upper crust, attempts to swim his way home through his neighbors’ pools.
May 22, 2024 · American writer John Cheever’s “Swimmer” adopts a surreal or symbolic style that breaks away from the previous ideas and approaches of realism. The story’s hero Neddy Merrill embarks on an adventurous journey to swim home: an eight-mile journey that connects suburban swimming pools in his mind’s eye to form the magnificent Lucinda River, named for his wife.
May 23, 2024 · “The Swimmer,” by John Cheever (The New Yorker) “The Swimmer” (1968) “The Women’s Room,” by Marilyn French “Wifey,” by Judy Blume “This Isn’t What Millennial Middle Age Was Supposed to Look Like,” by Jessica Grose (The New York Times) “Wayward,” by Dana Spiotta “Eat, Pray, Love,” by Elizabeth Gilbert
May 15, 2024 · Pair it with “ The Swimmer ” for the full Cheever experience. The story begins: Jim and Irene Westcott were the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and respectability that is reached by the statistical reports in college alumni bulletins.
