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The Wapshot Chronicle
by John Cheever (1957)
★3.75(4 ratings)
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 stirring family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James
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Like The Wapshot Chronicle, this book captures a specific era with witty social observation and eccentric characters.
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