num_pages: 352
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
language: English
title: The Wapshot Chronicle
titlecomplete: The Wapshot Chronicle
characters: Coverly Wapshot, Moses Wapshot, Leander Wapshot
genres: 20th Century, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 7219
places: Massachusetts, St. Botolphs, Massachusetts
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics