The Wapshot Scandal
by John Cheever
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9780679739005,
Paperback,
Random House Inc,
1992
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9780809590988,
Hardcover,
Wildside Pr,
1991
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9780060528881,
Paperback,
Perennial,
2003
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9780345294098,
Paperback,
Ballantine Books,
1983
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Publisher Notes
This 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.
Media Reviews
"The mythic element in [this work] is more indigenous and contained beneath the surface of character and event than in (for instance) John Updike's 'The Centaur' or Thornton Wilder's 'The Cabala'. ...As for Mr. Cheever, he is a very good writer indeed. His new novel is rich and tricky and full of surprises. More than anyone except perhaps Nabokov (and he does not suffer from Nabokov's sudden plunges into pure grotesquerie), he is able to use the objects, the scenes and the attributes of contemporary life for the purposes of art. Ugliness, pain, loneliness and horror are not softened but understood and valued without sentiment, without moralizing and (it seems to me) with profound good sense that approaches wisdom."
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