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In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to The Wapshot Chronicle, the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village 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.
Acclaimed sequel to The Wapshot Chronicle. "Full of surprises...with profound good sense that approaches wisdom." --New York Times Book Review
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Jerrad Mills
reviewed The Wapshot Scandal on March 01, 2017
The Wapshot Scandal
In John Cheever's first novel (1957), Moses and Coverly Wapshot, sons of Leander the fisherman, grow up in little St. Botolphs, Massachusetts, a port so small that, like pumpkin pie, it "has no upper crust" (that last *mot* per their elderly cousin Honora). But the boys must leave their stagnant little home place and make their way in the world, a sometimes alarming proposition since the boys have been handsomely equipped with the airs and attitudes of 19th Century New England and not much beyond that.
In this well-received sequel, THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL (1964), **SPOILERS** that same cousin Honora decides to flee for Italy because it turns out, ca. 1960, that she has never paid an income tax. Just never got around to it. The Italian scenes and interludes were inspired by Cheever's own sojourn in Rome with wife and child, and another on the way. I don't know about the curling iron, but I do know they are both fine and funny books. Moses and Coverly and father Leander: well, they do have a time of things. Both are funny books, yet shot through with Cheever's very real anguish at times.
The Wapshot Chronicle;
The Wapshot Scandal.
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