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Informationen zum Autor John Cheever, best known for his short stories dealing with upper-middle-class suburban life, was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. Cheever published his first short story at the age of seventeen. He was the recipient of a 1951 Guggenheim Fellowship and winner of a National Book Award for The Wapshot Chronicle in 1958, the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Stories of John Cheever , the National Book Critics Circle Award, and an American Book Award. He died in 1982, at the age of seventy. Klappentext In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to The Wapshot Chronicle, the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS, and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion.A novel of large and tender vision, The Wapshot Scandal is filled with pungent characters and outrageous twists of fate, and, above all, with Cheever's luminous compassion for all his hapless fellow prisoners of human nature. Zusammenfassung In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to The Wapshot Chronicle! the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into the demented caprices of the mighty! the bad graces of the IRS! and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion. A novel of large and tender vision! The Wapshot Scandal is filled with pungent characters and outrageous twists of fate! and! above all! with Cheever´s luminous compassion for all his hapless fellow prisoners of human nature.
