The Wapshot Chronicle
by:
John Cheever (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780809437320 (0809437325)
Publish date: January 1st 1982
Publisher: Time Life Medical
Pages no: 385
Edition language: English
this is one of those novels that starts sharp and strong, and ends dull and dreary. i really enjoyed the first part of the novel, particularly the old diary of the wapshot ancestor who was dishonoured by his father's wayward ways at sea. the book is kind of clunky, and there are abrupt shifts in the...