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 family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James
language: English
title: Wapshot Chronicle/10085
titlecomplete: Wapshot Chronicle/10085
characters: Moses Wapshot, Coverly Wapshot, Leander Wapshot
genres: Classics, Adult Fiction, Fiction, The United States Of America, Modern Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 7219
places: Massachusetts, St. Botolphs, Massachusetts
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Daedalus Books