The Wapshot Chronicle
1st Edition
Published on 23. December 2010
336 pages
978-1-4090-8889-9 (ISBN)
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 family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James
Reviews / Votes
Cheever's debut novel is skittish, mercurial and ringing with life * Guardian * The best introduction to Cheever's work...richly inventive and vividly told * New York Times Magazine * A tapestry woven from the threads of emotion, tragedy, comedy...and the irony so wonderfully evident in the author's short stories...a literary mosaic...Cheever is a pleasure to read * San Francisco Chronicle * A brilliantly written novel, vastly and sometimes sadly, amusing * Time *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
File size
2,06 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4090-8889-9 (9781409088899)
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Person
John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912, and he went to school at Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1978 he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982 he was awarded the National Medal for Literature.
