John Cheever told the Paris Review about a writer who argued that Cheever could have been another Faulkner if only he had stayed in St. Botolphs, the setting of this novel. Reading The Wapshot Chronicle it is hard to disagree. There is a vibrancy and poignancy throughout, peppered with the picaresque. Leander Wapshot's memoir passages, written in a clipped style and revealing great depths, are especially effective.
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