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The Wapshot Scandal
The Wapshot Scandal
Author: John Cheever
In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to The Wapshot Chronicle, the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS, and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion. A novel of large and tender vision, T...  more » is filled with pungent characters and outrageous twists of fate, and, above all, with Cheever's luminous compassion for all his hapless fellow prisoners of human nature.
ISBN-13: 9780060802967
ISBN-10: 0060802960
Publication Date: 7/1/1973
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Wasn't nearly as good as The Wapshot Chronicles. THe book seemed very disjointed, but it may have been that I had read Chronicles so long ago that the characters and past situations were no longer sharp and clear to me.I don't think this was one of Cheever's best books


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