Description

Once The Wapshot Chronicle was released in 1957, John Cheever was previously thought to be an author of excellent stories. However The Wapshot Chronicle, which won the 1958 National Book Award, established him as a significant author. Located in part on Cheever’s adolescence in New England, the book follows the destinies of the impecunious and extremely odd Wapshots of St. Botolphs, a perfect Boston fishing town.