Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever

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Original Title: Wapshot Chronicles

ISBN: 0345343239
ISBN13: 9780345343239
Autor: John Cheever
Rating: 4.7 of 5 stars (2986) counts
Original Format: Mass Market Paperback, 224 pages
Download Format: PDF, RTF, ePub, CHM, MP3.
Published: September 12th 1986 / by Ballantine Books / (first published 1957)
Language: English
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Description:
In 1957, when The WAPSHOT CHRONICLE was published, John Cheever was already
recognized as a writer of superb short stories. But THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE, which won the
1958 National Book Award, established him as a major novelist. Seven years later, THE
WAPSHOT SCANDAL confirmed his standing.
Together, these novels present the complete story of the Wapshot inheritance, from the early 20th
century to the 1960s and from a small Massachusetts village to New York and Europe.
"THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE has been a beautifully rewarding experience for me...it is a
compelling book. Character after character is perfectly rendered with warmth and detachment.
Episode after episode is a model of narrative virtuosity." --Robert Penn Warren

About Author:

John Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of
the suburbs" or "the Ovid of Ossining." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of
Manhattan, the suburbs of Westchester, New York, and old New England villages based on
various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born.
His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity
between a character's decorous social persona and inner corruption, and sometimes as a conflict
between two characters (often brothers) who embody the salient aspects of both--light and dark,
flesh and spirit. Many of his works also express a nostalgia for a vanishing way of life,
characterized by abiding cultural traditions and a profound sense of community, as opposed to the
alienating nomadism of modern suburbia.
Other Editions:

- The Wapshot Chronicle (Paperback)

- The Wapshot Chronicle (Paperback)

- The Wapshot Chronicle (Paperback)

- Cronache della famiglia Wapshot (Paperback)

- The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshot Scandal (Hardcover)

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Rewiews:

Dec 05, 2007

Mike Lindgren
Rated it: it was amazing
Shelves: fiction
It's gonna happen sometime, people, no matter how you may dread it. Yes, I am referring to my
long-planned, heavily-unanticipated, as-yet-unwritten, irritatingly irrelevant monograph on John
Cheever, wherein I single-handedly return him to his proper place in the first rank of American
novelists. Due in equal parts to Seinfeld and postmodernism, Cheever has become little more than
a punch line: a sad symbol of dated postwar suburban cocktail-party angst well, think again,
bitches! The Wapsho
It's gonna happen sometime, people, no matter how you may dread it. Yes, I am referring to my
long-planned, heavily-unanticipated, as-yet-unwritten, irritatingly irrelevant monograph on John
Cheever, wherein I single-handedly return him to his proper place in the first rank of American
novelists. Due in equal parts to Seinfeld and postmodernism, Cheever has become little more than
a punch line: a sad symbol of dated postwar suburban cocktail-party angst well, think again,
bitches! The Wapshot Chronicle is a heartbreakingly beautiful novel, full of moral clarity, the
inevitability of sin, sex, booze, ambition, jazz, city life, country life, all poured out in chiselled,
pristine prose. There will be more to come from me in this vein, I promise. Oh yes, I promise.
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Joe Mossa
Mike,look at my posts at CONSTANT READER,JOE. I would love to hear your
comments,comparisons to other authors. Thanks..Joe

Dec 16, 2009 08:49PM

Mike Lindgren
The threatened piece took the form of a long essay for n+1 website, here:
http://www.nplusonemag.com/cheever-ch...

Jan 26, 2012 11:53PM

Jeb Harrison
I would hardly call the prose in The Wapshot Chronicle "chiseled". I often felt like Cheever was
filling up the page with what at times seems like an
I would hardly call the prose in The Wapshot Chronicle "chiseled". I often felt like Cheever was
filling up the page with what at times seems like an effort to exhaust every imaginable metaphor.

Nov 24, 2012 12:02AM