World of Apples

About this book

Innocent old-fashioned self-aware Cheevers people are summoned by strange and improbable events to ponder the values they have been taught to trust...decency common sense nostalgia even truth. Stunned by these encounters they nevertheless survive. A worn-out poet finds peace in his heart as he lays his Lermontov medal at the foot of the sacred angel; a prosperous suburbanite contemplates his predicament when his wife joins the cast of a nude show; a guileless and romantic well digger anxious for a bride visits Russia falls in love and returns home "singing the unreality blues"; and a miserably married man fantasizes a beautiful lover who comes to him for strength love and counsel while he tends the charcoal grill in the backyard.