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Wapshaw Chronicle (by John Cheever)
General Fiction沃普萧纪事（约翰·契弗作品）
(us) John Cheever
In "The Wapshaw Chronicles", get to know the Wapshaw family of St. Botolphus: Captain Leander Wapshaw, a respectable old sailor, whose only wish at the funeral is that someone read a piece of Shakespeare; his wife Sarah, whose fantasies about the future will become reality, run the town. Everything big and small; the eldest son Moses, who loves women, unexpectedly survived a desperate career after an accident; the second son Coverley married a beautiful wife, but one day she came home and she disappeared... In this novel written sixty years ago, those experiences seem to have happened to us when we read it today.
In "The Wapshaw Chronicles", get to know the Wapshaw family of St. Botolphus: Captain Leander Wapshaw, a respectable old sailor, whose only wish at the funeral is that someone read a piece of Shakespeare; his wife Sarah, whose fantasies about the future will become reality, run the town. Everything big and small; the eldest son Moses, who loves women, unexpectedly survived a desperate career after an accident; the second son Coverley married a beautiful wife, but one day she came home and she disappeared... In this novel written sixty years ago, those experiences seem to have happened to us when we read it today.