โ Scribed by John Cheever
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Paperback, 310 pages
Published 1957
Vintage (1998)
National Book Award for Fiction (1958)
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
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' 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.
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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 E
### Review 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 auth
### Review 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 auth
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 E
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERS Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village - and into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS and