The Wapshot Chronicle

Resumen del libro

When "The Wapshot Chronicle" was published in 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 in the tradition of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James.

Biografía del autor

John Cheever (Quincy, Massachusetts, 1912 - Ossining, Nueva York, 1982), cuentista y novelista, es el narrador que mejor ha sabido plasmar las obsesiones y los miedos de la clase media estadounidense que habita en las afueras de los grandes centros urbanos. Autor de grandes novelas como Crónica de los Wapshot (1957), que recibió el National Book Award, El escándalo de los Wapshot (1964) o Falconer (1977), su consagración definitiva le llegó en 1978 con The Stories of John Cheever, que reunía sus mejores relatos. Fue por ello galardonado con el Premio Pulitzer de 1979 y el National Book Award de 1981.