The Wapshot Chronicle
John Cheever · 1957
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About the book
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 stirring family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James
First sentence: St. Botolphs was an old place, an old river town.
Book details
- Year
- 1957
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Editions
- 5
- ISBN
- 9780345294081
Data source: Wikidata
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