Quotes from book
The Wapshot Chronicle

Name: The Wapshot Chronicle
Author: John Cheever

The Wapshot Chronicle is the debut novel by John Cheever about an eccentric family that lives in a Massachusetts fishing village. Published in 1957, it won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1958,

“I'm wicked, as you say, and I'm rude and I'm boorish and I discovered, after marrying Mr Scaddon, that I could be all these things and worse and that there would still be plenty of people to lick my boots.”

John Cheever book The Wapshot Chronicle

The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)

“He had that spooky bass voice meant to announce that he had entered the kingdom of manhood, but Rosalie knew that he was still outside the gates.”

John Cheever book The Wapshot Chronicle

The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)

“Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.”

John Cheever book The Wapshot Chronicle

The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)

“…your underwear is clean in case you should be hit by a taxicab and have to be undressed by strangers.”

John Cheever book The Wapshot Chronicle

The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)

“.. for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho.”

John Cheever book The Wapshot Chronicle

The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)

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