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, and irrepressible urge to mae 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 inevetably, there came a son to the household, a boy who awakened one morning with a certain gamey exuberance...
The wapshot chronicle is the magnificently rich and sweeping story of a family who stufornly refused to let the sap of life run dry.« 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...