The Wapshot Chronicle (Abacus Books)

by JohnCheever (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $4.69

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $11.52

  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' 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 family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James.