The Wapshot Chronicle

John Cheever

first published 1957 Perennial, 2003 352 pages

Perennial classics

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 Ja...

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The Wapshot chronicle edition · 2003 · Perennial · 352 pages
The Wapshot chronicle edition · 1999 · G.K. Hall · 448 pages
The Wapshot chronicle edition · 1998 · Vintage · 307 pages
The Wapshot chronicle edition · 1992 · Vintage International · 307 pages
The Wapshot Chronicle paperback · 1989 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780060916183
The Wapshot Chronicle audiobook · 1986 · Books on Tape, Inc. · 9780736607117
The Wapshot Chronicle paperback · 1986 · Ballantine Books · 9780345294081
The Wapshot chronicle edition · 1982 · Time-Life Books · 385 pages
The Wapshot chronicle edition · 1981 · Abacus · 296 pages
The Wapshot chronicle edition · 1979 · Harper & Row · 549 pages
The Wapshot Chronicle audiobook · 1965 · Books On Tape · 9785557077798

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