From one of the greatest writers of the 20th century—the darkly comic yet deeply compassionate sequel to the National Book Award–winning novel, The Wapshot Chronicles.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever shares the further adventures of the Wapshot clan, which for generations has called the New England village of St. Botolphs home. Now, though, the family is cast far and wide: Coverly Wapshot to a secretive missile test site and the formidable Cousin Honora self-exiled in Italy after finding herself on the wrong side of the IRS. Meanwhile, closer to home, Coverly’s brother, Moses, is in dire straits—and worried that he’s being haunted by his father’s ghost.
A powerful, sometimes bawdy work of fiction,
The Wapshot Scandal is the story of one eccentric—and sometimes tragic—family from one of our greatest writers.
The acclaimed sequel to Pulitzer Prize-winner John Cheever's National Book Award-winning first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle.
In this darkly comic yet deeply compassionate follow-up to his canonical classic, The Wapshot Chronicle--which won the National Book Award--John Cheever continues the story of the Wapshot family, longtime residents of the quintessential Massachusetts fishing village of St. Botolphs. In these further adventures, some members of the Wapshot clan will roam far from New England, while, closer to home, others grapple with the ghosts of the past--and their own inner demons. Told through the interweaving stories of several generations, The Wapshot Scandal follows the lives of one eccentric, sometimes tragic, family, and the scandals that plague them.
“A master American storyteller.” —
Time“[A] shimmering novel. . . . Cheever has dealt the reader a hand full of court cards, of kings and queens and knaves. But perhaps they come from a tarot deck, the ancient instrument of the fortune-teller;for when they are laid down in a plain pattern, they quiver andchange and play tricks.” —
The New York Times Book Review“John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice . . . is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices ofpostwar American literature.” —Philip Roth
