The Wapshot chronicle

Description:

Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New England, The Wapshot Chronicle is a stirring family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James

subjects: Fiction,  Fishing villages,  National Book Award Winner,  award:national_book_award=1958,  award:national_book_award=fiction,  Family,  Families,  United states, fiction,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Triangles (Interpersonal relations),  Man-woman relationships,  American fiction,  American Domestic fiction,  American Autobiographical fiction,  Large type books,  Massachusetts, fiction,  Fiction, family life,  Fiction, family life, general,  Fathers and sons,  Bisexuality,  Bisexuals,  Famille,  Romans, nouvelles,  Nouvelle-Angleterre,  Bisexual people

Places: Massachusetts