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   shop now. amazon bookshop. A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen) has a compulsive impact. "Nobody big except me" is the dream world of Holden Caulfield and his first person story is down to the basic, drab English of the pre-collegiate.

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   The Wapshot Chronicle. John Cheever. 3.76. 7,317 ratings451 reviews. 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.

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   • Author: John Cheever

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   When was The Wapshot Chronicle published?

   • Published in 1957, it won the U.S. National Book Award for Fictionin 1958,and was followed by a sequel, The Wapshot Scandal, published in 1964. The Wapshot Chronicleis the sometimes-humorous story of Leander Wapshot, his eccentric Cousin Honora, and his sons, Moses and Coverly, as they all deal with life.

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   Is the Wapshot Chronicle based on a true story?

   • 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 Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool.

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   Is Wapshot a good book?

   • In 1998, the Modern Libraryranked The Wapshot Chronicle63rd on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

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   What makes the Wapshot Scandal a good book?

   • A novel of large and tender vision, The Wapshot Scandal is filled with pungent characters and outrageous twists of fate, and, above all, with Cheever's luminous compassion for all his hapless fellow prisoners of human nature. «Esta sobresaliente colección de relatos muestra el poder y el alcance de uno de los mejores escritores del siglo pasado.

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   The Wapshot Chronicle book. Read 405 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander W...

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   Jun 28, 2011 · Reviews. The Wapshot Chronicle. About the Book. The Wapshot Chronicle. by John Cheever. The Wapshot Chronicle is the telling of the history and circumstances of the eclectic Wapshot family.

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   Jun 28, 2011 · The Wapshot Chronicle is a family saga that focuses on intergenerational differences. Think about the differences between the earlier, esteemed Wapshots, Thaddeus and Lorenzo, and a comparison of Honora, Leander, and Sarah's generation to that of Coverly and Moses.

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   Paperback. 368 pages. June 2003. As any avid reader knows there is a plethora of books on the subject of growing up and becoming an adult. So what makes The Wapshot Chronicle a singular work, one worthy of the National Book Award it won in 1958? The short answer is its author, John Cheever.