The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever Paperback Book

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Author: John Cheever

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Format: Unabridged-MP3, Paperback, Unabridged-MP3

Publisher: Brilliance Corporation

Published: Mar 2010

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $24.99

Discs: 1

Synopsis

When The Wapshot Chronicle was published in 1957, John Cheever was already recognized as a writer of superb short stories. But The Wapshot Chronicle, which won the 1958 National Book Award, established him as a major novelist.

Based in part on Cheever's adolescence in New England, the novel follows the destinies of the impecunious and wildly eccentric Wapshots of St. Botolphs, a quintessential Massachusetts fishing village. Here are the stories of Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea dog and would-be suicide; of his licentious older son, Moses; and of Moses' adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly.

Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, The Wapshot Chronicle is a family narrative in the tradition of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James.

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