John Cheever: The Wapshot Chronicle
The Wapshot Chronicle
Buch
- VINTAGE, 02/2021
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780593081778
- Bestellnummer: 9649359
- Umfang: 400 Seiten
- Gewicht: 245 g
- Maße: 203 x 132 mm
- Stärke: 16 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 2.2.2021
- Serie: Vintage International
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
Pulitzer Prize-winner John Cheever's National Book Award-winning first novel, finally back in print.By 1957, John Cheever was already recognized as a writer of superb short stories. But The Wapshot Chronicle, which won the 1958 National Book Award, established him as a major novelist. Based in part on Cheever's adolescence in New England, the novel follows the destinies of the impecunious and wildly eccentric Wapshots of St. Botolphs, a quintessential Massachusetts fishing village. Here are the stories of Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea dog and would-be suicide; of his licentious older son, Moses; and of Moses' adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, The Wapshot Chronicle is a family narrative from one of our finest writers.