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...WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. A tragical-farcical sequel to The Wapshot Chronicle hurls the hapless Wapshot family from cozy 19th century St. Botolphs into the present precarious world of supermarkets, noncommunities and missile-research centers. It establishes Cheever as suburbia's first poet-mythologist...
...Wapshot Scandal, Cheever...
...WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. A tragical-farcical sequel to The Wapshot Chronicle hurls the hapless Wapshot family from cozy 19th century St. Botolphs into the present precarious world of supermarkets, noncommunities and missile research centers, and establishes Author Cheever as Suburbia's first poet-mythologist...
Precarious Paradise. But this sort of thing is a social disguise for the heft of Cheever's work, which moves between tragedy and farce and realism and fantasy to present a heavy parable of American life-especially the life of the semi-migratory U.S. bourgeoisie and the uncertain ecology of their nesting grounds in the U.S. suburb. Suburbia, which in its modern form is barely a generation old, has so far lacked the kind of precentor or poet that the South, the West, the City, and the Small Town long since acquired. In John Cheever, Suburbia has its first...
Proxmire Manor seems to 'be located in northern Westchester. (Novelist Cheever himself was born in Quincy, Mass., but now lives in Ossining, N.Y., in a stone-gabled 18th century house with wife, three children, two Labradors, two Roman doves, and two cars.) With no irony whatever, Proxmire Manor is presented as the kind of a place where people could, if they were good, live happily ever afterward, but foolishly, because they are wicked, choose...