# The Wapshot Chronicle

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- Book: [The Wapshot Chronicle](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-cheever/the-wapshot-chronicle) ([The Wapshot Chronicle.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-cheever/the-wapshot-chronicle.md))
- Authors: [John Cheever](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-cheever)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0908-889-9
- Published: 2010-12-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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