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The Wapshot Scandal

With an Introduction by Dave Eggers

John Cheever author Dave Eggers editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:5th Nov '09

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The sequel to John Cheever's first, extraordinary novel - The Wapshot Chronicle

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERS

Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERS

Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village - and into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion. A novel of large and tender vision, The Wapshot Scandal is filled with pungent characters and outrageous twists of fate, and, above all, with Cheever's luminous compassion for all his hapless fellow prisoners of human nature.

I read The Wapshot Scandal with pure delight - in the characters, in the firm and deceptively simple style, and most of all in the continual power of invention -- Malcolm Cowley
A master American storyteller * Time *
Cheever's intelligence and honesty powerfully communicate the sensations of being alive * Sunday Times *
One of the finest storytellers writing in English today * The Times *
Cheever is a pleasure to read * San Francisco Chronicle *

ISBN: 9780099540595

Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 21mm

Weight: 247g

352 pages