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Book SynopsisMeet 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
Trade ReviewCheever'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 *
