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The Wapshot Scandal John Cheever

The Wapshot Scandal By John Cheever

The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever


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Summary

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERS

Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves.

The Wapshot Scandal Summary

The Wapshot Scandal: With an Introduction by Dave Eggers by John Cheever

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERS

Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village - and into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion. A novel of large and tender vision, The Wapshot Scandal is filled with pungent characters and outrageous twists of fate, and, above all, with Cheever's luminous compassion for all his hapless fellow prisoners of human nature.

The Wapshot Scandal Reviews

I read The Wapshot Scandal with pure delight - in the characters, in the firm and deceptively simple style, and most of all in the continual power of invention -- Malcolm Cowley
A master American storyteller * Time *
Cheever's intelligence and honesty powerfully communicate the sensations of being alive * Sunday Times *
One of the finest storytellers writing in English today * The Times *
Cheever is a pleasure to read * San Francisco Chronicle *

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.

Additional information

GOR004027790
9780099540595
0099540592
The Wapshot Scandal: With an Introduction by Dave Eggers by John Cheever
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
2009-11-05
352
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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