The Wapshot Chronicle John Cheever

Name: The Wapshot Chronicle By John Cheever
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The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever

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Summary

Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. 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

The Wapshot Chronicle Summary

The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever

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

The Wapshot Chronicle 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 *

About John Cheever

John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912, and he went to school at Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1978 he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982 he was awarded the National Medal for Literature.

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Sku

GOR001266879

ISBN 13

9780099275275

ISBN 10

0099275279

Title

The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever

Author

John Cheever

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

1998-11-05

Number of pages

336

Prizes

N/A

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