The Wapshot Chronicle Author:John Cheever A CERTAIN GAMEY EXUBERANCE ... For every Wapshot life was a continuous celebration. In each generation a Wapshot boy awakened to manhood with a certain gamey exuberance, an irrepressible urge to make a dent on the world. Up and out they went ... Old Leander, like his sea-faring New England ancestors, went by sea; Moses went by land; Coverley, by... more » rocket, you might say. All returned with trophies to prove the pleasures of conquest. Each Wapshot eventually settled down and looked almost innocent. Until, invariably and inevitably, there came a son to the household, a boy who awakened one morning with a certain gamey exuberance ...« less
For every Wapshot life was a continuous celebration. In each generation a Wapshot boy awakened to manhood with a certain gamey exuberance, an irrepressible urge to make a dent in the world. Up and out they went...