num_pages: 320
description: In this 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.
language: English
title: The Wapshot Scandal
titlecomplete: The Wapshot Scandal
characters: Moses Wapshot, Coverly Wapshot
genres: Classics, American, Adult, Adult Fiction, Modern Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 863
places: Massachusetts
awards: awardedAt: -157737600000
name: William Dean Howells Medal
publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics