The Wapshot Scandal

New York/Evanston/London: Harper & Row, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. First edition. Faint edge wear. 1964 Hard Cover. 309 pp. "In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to The Wapshot Chronicle, the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS, and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion. A novel of large and tender vision, The Wapshot Scandal is 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.