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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
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The Wapshot Chronicle, John Cheever
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- Released
- 2011
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Cheever
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0060528877
- ISBN13
- 9780060528874
- 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
- Description
- 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