The Wapshot Scandal
Novel by John Cheever
The Wapshot Scandal is the second novel by American writer John Cheever.[1][2] The book followed The Wapshot Chronicle, and was awarded the 1965 William Dean Howells Medal. The scandal of the title involves one of the Wapshot wives running off with a 19-year-old bagboy from the local A&P and making a life with him in Italy.
The book is written in Cheever's signature style, and in part seeks to engage with issues of American civilization coping in a nuclear and automated age.
References
- ^ "THINGS AREN'T WHAT THEY SEEM; A Tragic, Farcical View of Today's World Is Presented in John Cheever's New Novel; THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL. By John Cheever. 309 pp. New York and Evanston: Harper & Row. $4.95". The New York Times. 1964-01-05. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
- ^ "THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL | Kirkus Reviews". 1 January 1963.
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John Cheever
- The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)
- The Wapshot Scandal (1964)
- Bullet Park (1969)
- Falconer (1977)
- Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982)
- The Way Some People Live (1943)
- The Enormous Radio and Other Stories (1953)
- The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories (1958)
- Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel (1961)
- The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964)
- The World of Apples (1973)
- The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
- Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever (1994)
- "Expelled" (1930)
- "Fall River" (1931)
- "Late Gathering" (1931)
- "The Brothers" (1937)
- "Publick House" (1941)
- "The Enormous Radio" (1947)
- "Torch Song" (1947)
- "The Hartleys" (1949)
- "Goodbye, My Brother" (1951)
- "O Youth and Beauty!" (1953)
- "The Five-Forty-Eight" (1954)
- "The Day the Pig Fell Into the Well" (1954)
- "The Country Husband" (1954)
- "The Wrysons" (1958)
- "The Scarlet Moving Van" (1959)
- "The Music Teacher" (1959)
- "The Seaside Houses" (1961)
- "Reunion" (1962)
- "The Swimmer" (1964)
- "The Geometry of Love" (1966)
- "The World of Apples" (1966)
- "The Fourth Alarm (1970)
- "Artemis, the Honest Well-Digger" (1972)
- "The Country Husband" (Playhouse 90) (1956)
- The Swimmer (1968)
- The Five Forty-Eight (1979)
- Parc (2008)
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