The Wapshot Chronicle
John Cheever
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
<b>Pulitzer Prize-winner John Cheever's National Book Award-winning first novel, finally back in print. A Vintage Original.</b><br>By 1957, John Cheever was already recognized as a writer of superb short stories. But <i>The Wapshot Chronicle</i>, which won the 1958 National Book Award, established him as a major novelist. Based in part on Cheever's adolescence in New England, the novel follows the destinies of the impecunious and wildly eccentric Wapshots of St. Botolphs, a quintessential Massachusetts fishing village. Here are the stories of Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea dog and would-be suicide; of his licentious older son, Moses; and of Moses' adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, <i>The Wapshot Chronicle</i> is a family narrative from one of our finest writers.</br>