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The Wapshot Chronicle (Paperback)
John Cheever (author)Published: 05/11/1998
Meet theWapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New England, The Wapshot Chronicle is a family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099275275
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 237 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 20 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Cheever's debut novel is skittish, mercurial and ringing with life - Guardian
The best introduction to Cheever's work...richly inventive and vividly told - New York Times Magazine
A tapestry woven from the threads of emotion, tragedy, comedy...and the irony so wonderfully evident in the author's short stories...a literary mosaic...Cheever is a pleasure to read - San Francisco Chronicle
A brilliantly written novel, vastly and sometimes sadly, amusing - Time
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