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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- Fiction
- Fishing villages
- National Book Award Winner
- award:national_book_award=1958
- award:national_book_award=fiction
- Family
- Families
- United states, fiction
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Man-woman relationships
- American fiction
- American Domestic fiction
- American Autobiographical fiction
- Large type books
- Massachusetts, fiction
- Fiction, family life
- Fiction, family life, general
- Fathers and sons
- Bisexuality
- Bisexuals
- Famille
- Romans, nouvelles
- Nouvelle-Angleterre
- Bisexual people
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