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Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; 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
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Cheever
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Love, Family, Classics, USA, American Literature, New York, America, Diaries, Satire, Marital Crisis, Parody, Boston, Washington, New England
- Original title
- The Whapshot chronicle
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
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- Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; 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