**From one of the greatest writers of the 20th century--the darkly comic
yet deeply compassionate sequel to the National Book Award-winning
novel, *The Wapshot Chronicles.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever shares the further adventures
of the Wapshot clan, which for generations has called the New England
village of St. Botolphs home. Now, though, the family is cast far and
wide: Coverly Wapshot to a secretive missile test site and the
formidable Cousin Honora self-exiled in Italy after finding herself on
the wrong side of the IRS. Meanwhile, closer to home, Coverly's brother,
Moses, is in dire straits--and worried that he's being haunted by his
father's ghost.
A powerful, sometimes bawdy work of fiction, The Wapshot Scandal is
the story of one eccentric--and sometimes tragic--family from one of our
greatest writers.