The Wapshot Chronicle

Pulitzer Prize-winner John Cheever's National Book Award-winning first novel, finally back in print.

By 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 from one of our finest writers.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/02/2021
ISBN: 9780593081778
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.63d