The Wapshot Chronicle
Author: Cheever, John
ISBN: 9780099275275
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 08 Jan 1999
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
The first novel John Cheever wrote is a wonderful introduction to his writing; clever, funny, charming and bursting with life
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
ISBN: 9780099275275
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 08 Jan 1999
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
The first novel John Cheever wrote is a wonderful introduction to his writing; clever, funny, charming and bursting with life
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
