The Wapshot Chronicle by Cheever, John

The Wapshot Chronicle (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780593081778)

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Format: Paperback
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The Wapshot Chronicle by Cheever, John

The Wapshot Chronicle

$16.95
The Wapshot Chronicle by Cheever, John

The Wapshot Chronicle

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - Pulitzer Prize winner John Cheever's classic novel about one eccentric New England family, inspired by the author's own adolescence. The Wapshots have called the quintessential Massachusetts fishing village of St. Botolphs home for eons, but now it is time for the next generation--brothers Moses and Coverly--to go out and see the world.

Moses heads to New York City and, eventually, a remote island in the South Pacific, while his brother travels south to Washington, D.C., and a job "so secret that it can't be discussed here." Meanwhile, back in St. Botolphs, their father, Captain Leander, clashes with his fearsome Cousin Honora, who controls the family purse strings.

By turns tragic and deeply funny, The Wapshot Chronicle is a "richly inventive and vividly told" (The New York Times Magazine) work of fiction about one very odd family.

Author: John Cheever
ISBN-10: 0593081773
ISBN-13: 9780593081778
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2021
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d
By John Cheever
By John Cheever
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John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 The Stories of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

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