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...second novel, John Cheever has substantially raised his bid to establish the Wapshots of St. Botolphs, Mass., among the First Families of U.S. literature...
...WAPSHOT SCANDAL by John Cheever. 309 pages. Harper...
...most curious and original writers in the U.S. today, John Cheever continues to be underestimated. The Wapshot Chronicle received the National Book Award. But Cheever is neither chic nor shocking, and no critical claque inflates his reputation. He is neither politically opinionated nor a Freudian, and the sex he celebrates is freakishly normal, occurring at its best in the connubial...
...fact, Cheever is an old-fashioned moralist, and would be claimed as kin by that Old Lady from Dubuque for whom The New Yorker Magazine is not edited, but where, ironically, the bulk of his work has appeared. Old-fashioned abstractions that have almost been jostled out of intellectual currency-words like humility, goodness, pride, honor and love-constantly appear in his work. This has baffled some readers dazzled by the deceptively brilliant surface texture and the sort of knowing social-insider's stylishness that will set a time period with: "Now that was the year when the squirrels...
Rowing in the second boat will be: sophomore Sam Perry, at bow; junior Pete Cummin, at two; sophomore Pete Walker, at three; senior Bob Clement, at four; sophomore Tom Shapiro, at five; junior Sarg Cheever, at six; sophomore Stu Gauld, at seven; sophomore Galen Brewster, at stroke; and senior Dave Perkins...