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The Wapshot Chronicle

(1957)
(The first book in the Wapshot series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book
The fortunes and foibles of the Wapshots - the patriarch Leander, his wife Sarah and two sons, and Aunt Honora. The story moves from a small New England river town to New York and Europe; from the early 20th century to the 1960s. John Cheever won the 1958 National Book Award for "Chronicle".

Genre: Literary Fiction

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