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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 family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James

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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 *

The Wapshot Chronicle

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    A Paperback / softback by John Cheever

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 5 November 1998
      ISBN-13 9780099275275
      978-0099275275
      ISBN-10 0099275279
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      Historical Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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

      Trade 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 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 *

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