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Formado por La crnica de los Wapshot (National Book Award, 1958) y El escndalo de los Wapshot, este mnibus recoge la historia de una prestigiosa familia venida a menos.Las races de los Wapshot se hunden en Saint Botolphs, un pueblo pesquero donde la unica persona que conserva patrimonio es la excntrica ta Honora. Cheever nos presenta a Leander Wapshot, entraable 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 podra ser un alter ego del autor.Clida e irnica, la mirada de Cheever despliega aqu su comprensin hacia nuestras debilidades y disecciona con lucidez el ocaso de los privilegios.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONWhen The Wapshot Chronicle was published in 1957, John Cheever was already recognized as a writer of superb short stories.
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John Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs" or "the Ovid of Ossining. " His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the suburbs of Westchester, New York, and old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born. His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character's decorous social persona and inner corruption, and sometimes as a conflict between two characters (often brothers) who embody the salient aspects of both--light and dark, flesh and spirit. Many of his works also express a nostalgia for a vanishing way of life, characterized by abiding cultural traditions and a profound sense of community, as opposed to the alienating nomadism of modern suburbia.
