The Wapshot Scandal

Resumen del libro

The acclaimed sequel to Pulitzer Prize-winner John Cheever's National Book Award-winning first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle.

In this darkly comic yet deeply compassionate follow-up to his canonical classic, The Wapshot Chronicle which won the National Book Award John Cheever continues the story of the Wapshot family, longtime residents of the quintessential Massachusetts fishing village of St. Botolphs. In these further adventures, some members of the Wapshot clan will roam far from New England, while, closer to home, others grapple with the ghosts of the past and their own inner demons. Told through the interweaving stories of several generations, The Wapshot Scandal follows the lives of one eccentric, sometimes tragic, family, and the scandals that plague them.

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.