The Wapshot chronicle
by John Cheever
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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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Fiction, Fishing villages, National Book Award Winner, award:national_book_award=1958, award:national_book_award=fiction, Family, Families, United states, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Man-woman relationships, American fiction, American Domestic fiction, American Autobiographical fiction, Large type books, Massachusetts, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, family life, general, Fathers and sons, Bisexuality, Bisexuals, Famille, Romans, nouvelles, Nouvelle-Angleterre, Bisexual peoplePlaces
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The Wapshot chronicle
2003, Perennial
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The Wapshot chronicle
1992, Vintage International
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The Wapshot Chronicle
September 12, 1986, Ballantine Books
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143,813
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harper, 1957.
Issued in case: In hazard / Richard Hughes. Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, 1982.
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"St. Botolphs was an old place, an old river town."
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