Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever
A bittersweet, comic-lyric portrait of a provincial New England family and the small catastrophes of their lives, tracing aging patriarchs and their restless children as they struggle with love, infidelity, financial decline, and the yearning for escape; told with ironic affection and elegiac detail, the novel follows their misadventures and occasional flights to bohemian freedom, revealing the erosion of old certainties and the quiet heartbreak beneath suburban respectability.
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- Published
- 1957
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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