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From one of the greatest writers of the 20th century—the darkly comic yet deeply compassionate sequel to the National Book Award–winning novel, The Wapshot Chronicles. Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever shares the further adventures of the Wapshot clan, which for generations has called the New England village of St. Botolphs home. Now, though, the family is cast far and wide: Coverly Wapshot to a secretive missile test site and the formidable Cousin Honora self-exiled in Italy after finding herself on the wrong side of the IRS. Meanwhile, closer to home, Coverly’s brother, Moses, is in dire straits—and worried that he’s being haunted by his father’s ghost. A powerful, sometimes bawdy work of fiction, The Wapshot Scandal is the story of one eccentric—and sometimes tragic—family from one of our greatest writers.

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A master American storyteller. --Time [A] shimmering novel. . . . Cheever has dealt the reader a hand full of court cards, of kings and queens and knaves. But perhaps they come from a tarot deck, the ancient instrument of the fortune-teller;for when they are laid down in a plain pattern, they quiver andchange and play tricks. --The New York Times Book Review John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice . . . is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices ofpostwar American literature. --Philip Roth

“A master American storyteller.” —Time “[A] shimmering novel.... Cheever has dealt the reader a hand full of court cards, of kings and queens and knaves. But perhaps they come from a tarot deck, the ancient instrument of the fortune-teller;for when they are laid down in a plain pattern, they quiver andchange and play tricks.” —The New York Times Book Review “John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice ... is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices ofpostwar American literature.” —Philip Roth

A master American storyteller. -Time [A] shimmering novel. . . . Cheever has dealt the reader a hand full of court cards, of kings and queens and knaves. But perhaps they come from a tarot deck, the ancient instrument of the fortune-teller;for when they are laid down in a plain pattern, they quiver andchange and play tricks. -The New York Times Book Review John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice . . . is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices ofpostwar American literature. -Philip Roth

A master American storyteller. -Time [A] shimmering novel.... Cheever has dealt the reader a hand full of court cards, of kings and queens and knaves. But perhaps they come from a tarot deck, the ancient instrument of the fortune-teller;for when they are laid down in a plain pattern, they quiver andchange and play tricks. -The New York Times Book Review John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice ... is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices ofpostwar American literature. -Philip Roth

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John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 The Stories of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

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