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4 · 307 pages · First published 1957
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
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FictionFishing villagesNational Book Award Winneraward:national_book_award=1958award:national_book_award=fictionFamilyFamiliesUnited states, fictionAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)Triangles (Interpersonal relations)Man-woman relationshipsAmerican fictionAmerican Domestic fictionAmerican Autobiographical fictionLarge type booksMassachusetts, fictionFiction, family lifeFiction, family life, generalFathers and sonsBisexuality
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