This is John Cheever celebrates - the incomparable elegance and kindness - the deepest feeling we have - originally one of 12 wonderful stories of the John Sibro Sound series.
As Chieber wrote in his preamble, "When New York City is still full of the light of the river, when you listen to Benny Goodman Quartet from the corner from the horn, these stories sometimes lost the world for a long time It seems to be a story, most people are wearing a hat. "
In the story "Youth's beauty and beauty", John Cheever tells a happy couple whose fair share will increase or decrease to the Bentley family living in Shady Hill. . Cash Bentley is a father of this family and is a former track star with lots of money problems, sometimes being very sensitive. Cash also has a stubborn youth of attractive quality, and he always feels that he needs to prove his youth to his companion. Every time The Bentleys go out for a drink with a friend, cash reminds me of his age and hair sparse and will feel the need to prove his youth by tapping the furniture in the living room. Night cash will not hurt one of his men and will eventually not break his leg. This may have serious consequences as all around cash begins to get worse. He was unemployed and he was young and could not prove himself, but he began to fall into a severe depression and began to drink more than usual.
Beautiful plain sky, amber grain, purple hill under fruit plain! America! America! God gives you grace and brotherly love from the sea to the shining sea! For the feet of beautiful pilgrims, a beautiful, tough, passionate pressure, a way to freedom through the wilderness! America! America! God will repair all your faults and make sure your soul is your own work and your freedom is the law! Beautiful heroes prove disappointing not only in their own countries but in their struggle for liberation than in their lives. America! America! I hope that your gold will be refined to your God until all success becomes exalted and each one becomes sacred! A beautiful patriot's dream has seen tears of shining people in the city Alabaster City for many years! America! America! God will give him grace from you, in brotherly love, from the sea to the shining sea!