The Wapshot Chronicle - Brossura

Cheever, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060528877 ISBN 13: 9780060528874

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2011

Riassunto

Presents the story of the Wapshot inheritance, from the early twentieth century to the 1960s, as succeeding generations of the Wapshot family grapple with upper-class greed, pitiful lust, and intellectual amorality. Winner of the National Book Award. Reprint.

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L'autore:

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.

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Book by Cheever John

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• Editore: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0060528877
• ISBN 13: 9780060528874
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368