The Wapshot chronicle.

Description

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

First Sentence

St. Botolphs was an old place, an old river town.

Subjects

Other Editions

• The Wapshot chronicle.Harper & Row1957-01-01
• The Wapshot Chronicle.Gollancz1957-01-01
• The Wapshot chronicleHarper & Brothers1957-01-01
• The Wapshot chronicle1957-01-01
• The Wapshot chronicleBantam Books1958-01-01
• Die lieben WapshotsTaschenbuchRowohlt1962-09-01