The Wapshot Chronicle Author:John Cheever 1965. Mr. Cheever is a visionary whose imagination is continually pushed beyond realism into the fantastic and grotesque. The decline of an old New England family becomes for him a manifestation of some secret and universal evil that haunts human life.
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...