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Reading "The Wapshot Chronicle" - Salon (859 words) |
 | "The Wapshot Chronicle" was confusing and disorienting -- and also annoying -- me. I was drying my ticket underneath the automatic hand drier (the stares of the other bathroom visitors indicating they had never seen someone drying an airplane ticket before), as my name was repeatedly paged. |
| If Cheever's best short stories are masterworks of omission and indirection, "The Wapshot Chronicle," the uncharacteristic winner of a National Book Award for fiction (the committee in 1958 was actually giving him a belated award for his stories, right?), is a maximalist project, a mad, breathless, digression-filled spectacle. |
| In bald summary, "The Wapshot Chronicle" is the family saga of several generations of Wapshots of the fishing village of St. Botolphs. |
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