The Wapshot Chronicle (Paperback)

John Cheever (author)

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Paperback 336 Pages
Published: 05/11/1998

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Synopsis

Meet the Wapshots 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: 234 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm

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Cheever's debut novel is skittish, mercurial and ringing with life The best introduction to Cheever's work...richly inventive and vividly told 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 A brilliantly written novel, vastly and sometimes sadly, amusing