Los Wapshot / The Wapshot Chronicle

Las raíces de los Wapshot se hunden en Saint Botolphs, un pueblo pesquero donde la única persona que conserva patrimonio es la excéntrica tía Honora. Cheever nos presenta a Leander Wapshot, entrañable padre de familia; su respetable mujer, Sarah, y sus dos hijos, obligados a labrarse el futuro en la gran ciudad: Moses, un triunfador nato, y Coverly, un joven dubitativo ante su bisexualidad que bien podría ser un alter ego del autor.

Cálida e irónica, la mirada de Cheever despliega aquí su comprensión hacia nuestras debilidades y disecciona con lucidez el ocaso de los privilegios.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

When The Wapshot Chronicle was published in 1957, John Cheever was already recognized as a writer of superb short stories. But The Wapshot Chronicle, which won the 1958 National Book Award, established him as a major novelist.

Based in part on Cheever’s adolescence in New England, the novel follows the destinies of the impecunious and wildly eccentric Wapshots of St. Botolphs, a quintessential Massachusetts fishing village. Here are the stories of Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea dog and would-be suicide; of his licentious older son, Moses; and of Moses’ adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, The Wapshot Chronicle is a family narrative in the tradition of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James.

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