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The Wapshot Chronicle
John Cheever
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Description for The Wapshot Chronicle
Paperback. Introduces the Wapshots of St Botolphs. This title features Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses' adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 248.
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
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
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099275275
SKU
V9780099275275
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Wapshot Chronicle
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more