The Wapshot Chronicle
About this book
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 stirring family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James
Subjects
- american autobiographical fiction
- american domestic fiction
- american fiction
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- award:national_book_award=1958
- award:national_book_award=fiction
- bisexuality
- bisexual people
- bisexuals
- families
- famille
- family
- fathers and sons
- fiction
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- fishing villages
- large type books
- man-woman relationships
- massachusetts, fiction
- national book award winner
- nouvelle-angleterre
- romans, nouvelles
- triangles (interpersonal relations)
- united states, fiction