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The Wapshot chronicle

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Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly.

Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New England, The Wapshot Chronicle is a family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James

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Vintage Classics
0099275279 / 9780099275275
Paperback / softback
813.52
05/11/1998
United Kingdom
English
Classics
307p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Harper, 1957.