The Wapshot Chronicle Author:John Cheever This book is written with an apparently inexhaustible flow of inventiveness, and incidents follow each other-bawdy, whimsical, or uproariously comic-in an order apparently unrelated, but in fact most carefully devised. For the zest and vigour and sheer skill of Mr. Cheever one can have nothing less than very warm admiration. -Times [London]
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...