The Wapshot Scandal - Brossura

Cheever, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060528885 ISBN 13: 9780060528881

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2019

Riassunto

Upper-class greed, adultery, and the comedy of human senility are three major concerns in this family chronicle of the Wapshots of St. Botolphs, as the members of the dynasty drift away from their New England roots. Winner of the Howells Medal. 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.

Product Description:

A hilarious and poignant companion volume to "The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal" is a novel of large and tender vision, 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. Winner of the Howells Medal.

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• Editore: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0060528885
• ISBN 13: 9780060528881
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320