9780060528874
The Wapshot Chronicle
John Cheever
ISBN 13: 9780060528874
Publisher: Perennial
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Softcover
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When The Wapshot Chronicle was published in 1957, John Cheever was already recognized as a writer of superb short stories.But The Wapshot Chronicle, which won the 1958 National Book Award, established him as a major novelist.
Based in part on Cheever's adolescence in New England, the novel follows the destinies of the impecunious and wildly eccentric Wapshots of St. Botolphs, a quintessential Massachusetts fishing village.Here are the stories of Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea dog and would-be suicide; of his licentious older son, Moses; and of Moses' adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, The Wapshot Chronicle is a family narrative in the tradition of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James.
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"It is a story ribald and poignant by turn, a tapestry woven from threads of emotion, tragedy, comedy (or tragicomedy) and the irony so wonderfully evident in the author's short stories. Although his novel might at times seem to be a series of stories placed together as a literary mosaic, his talent is a controlled one, something that never gets out of hand. He is a pleasure to read, a fact that does not always apply to novels that win publishers' prizes."
William Hogan, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, 03/25/1957
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