by John Cheever · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099275275
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«The Wapshot Chronicle» is John Cheever's family and picaresque novel, published by Random House UK in paperback (307 pages, in English).
The novel follows the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs: Captain Leander, a veteran sailor with suicidal tendencies, and his sons Moses and Coverly, of opposite temperaments. It is a tragic and comic family saga, with a picaresque air, echoing Cheever's youth in New England.
The novel is John Cheever's first; it was originally published in 1957 and won the National Book Award in 1958.
The work is intended for readers of American classics and family sagas, as well as for book clubs.
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