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The Wapshot Chronicle is the debut novel by American author John Cheever about an eccentric family that lives in a Massachusetts fishing village. Published in 1957, it won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1958, [ 2] and was followed by a sequel, The Wapshot Scandal, published in 1964.
- John Cheever
- 1957
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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- John Cheever
In one of John Cheever's Shady Hill stories, a man comes home to his suburb after a plane trip. The plane has crashed in a field, but everyone has awesomely survived. The man enters his house in a sublime mood.
Summary. PDF Cite Share. St. Botolphs had been a bustling, prosperous river port in the days of the Massachusetts clipper fleets. It is currently, however, kept alive by a few small industries and...
The Wapshot Chronicle is about the lives of an eccentric family living in a Massachusetts fishing village. Once a bustling, prosperous river port, St. Botolphs is currently kept alive by a few small industries and summer tourism.
About the Wapshots, but they have wandered away from St. Botolph in this sequel to the Wapshot Chronicle. Their stories involve politics, weapons development, some light tax evasion, and the seamy underside of small town life in the late 50s.
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The Wapshot Chronicle, novel by John Cheever, published in 1957 and granted a National Book Award in 1958. Based in part on Cheever’s adolescence in New England, the novel takes place in a small Massachusetts fishing village and relates the breakdown of both the Wapshot family and the town. Part.
