Word: wapshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where the honey is. But somehow their lives, loves and labors leave the cuprous taste of pennies in their mouths; the middle-income bracket is their social vise. Few writers have probed the masked anxieties of the "have-not-enoughs" with the skill and authority of John (The Wapshot Chronicle) Cheever, 46. After Marquand, he is the ablest chronicler of the interior life of the organization...
...WAPSHOT CHRONICLE, by John Cheever. The most ruefully amusing novel of the year, a story about an old New England family on the skids, with a cast of pathetically brave left-behinds, hilarious eccentrics and nice youngsters who lack the gumption of their elders...
...WAPSHOT CHRONICLE (307 pp.)-John Cheever-Harper...
...Wapshots are a once-virile New England family rapidly outliving both their affluence and influence. Like the town of St. Botolphs where they live, they once drew their power from the sea. Time was when Wapshot boys got their baptism of life by sailing round the Horn, their baptism of sex on some Pacific island. Now the shipbuilding yards are silent and old Leander, head of the family, is reduced to ferrying trippers in a worn-out tub of a boat. His world is gone and frequently he has to take refuge in dreams of his lustier youth, but Leander...