The Wapshot Scandal (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Cheever
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: Early 1960’s
- Setting: St. Botolphs, Massachusetts; Proxmire Manor, a Westchester suburb; and Talifer, a missile research base
- Principal Characters: Honora Wapshot, Coverly Wapshot, Betsey Wapshot, Moses Wapshot, Melissa Wapshot, Emile Cranmer, Dr. Lemuel Cameron, Mr. Applegate, Gertrude Lockhart, Norman Johnson
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s
- Locales: Rome, Italy
The Story:
Honora Wapshot was eccentric spinster and septuagenarian guardian of the Wapshot treasure trove, oldest living descendant of a family that settled in the town of St. Botolphs, Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century. Honora supervised—but mainly underwrote with quarterly checks from a trust fund—the lives of her two young cousins, Moses and Coverly Wapshot. The two brothers had lost both their mother, Sarah, and their father, Leander, who drowned while swimming.
After a Christmas visit to Honora, during which Coverly was haunted by the ghost of his...
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