John Cheever’s Wapshot Annals
Graham Hough, 7 February 1980
The Wapshot Chronicle
by John Cheever.
Harper and Row, 549 pp., £6.95, November 1980,0 06 337007 7 Show More
by John Cheever.
Harper and Row, 549 pp., £6.95, November 1980,
“... of suspense, the reader is kept in a state of pleased and exhilarating surprise. Reviews of Patrice Chaplin’s previous books have described them as lurid, comic, blood-curdling and witty. I don’t know that I should want any of these contradictory adjectives to describe The Siesta, and certainly not all of them together, for it is a beautifully ... ”