The Wapshot chronicle / John Cheever.
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- ISBN: 0060528877 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xiv, 352 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st Perennial classics ed.
- Publisher: New York : Perennial, 2003.
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Subject: | Fishing villages > Fiction. Massachusetts > Fiction. |
Genre: | Autobiographical fiction. Domestic fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Bethel Public Library | F CHEEVER (Text) | 34030098782284 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | FIC Che (Text) | 33620138814096 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
New Milford Public Library | F CHEEV (Text) | 34021106747096 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Southbury Public Library | CHEEVER (Text) | 34019098251564 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary
The Wapshot Chronicle
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.