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Formado por La crónica de los Wapshot (National Book Award, 1958) y El escándalo de los Wapshot, este ómnibus recoge la historia de una prestigiosa familia venida a menos. 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, entra?able 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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Book category Books in Spanish Narrativa Novela

• Full title: Los wapshot
• Author: JOHN CHEEVER
• Language: Spanish
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688
• EAN: 9788466342063
• ISBN: 8466342060
• ID: 18707029
• Publisher: Debolsillo
• Weight: 502 g
• Dimensions: 190 × 128 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. January 2018

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