Somehow, this piffling little wifty novel won a National Book Award in 1958. The, supposedly, tragicomic story of the decline of the Wapshot family--father Leander, a ferry boat captain, & his sons Coverly and Moses--left me totally unmoved and uninterested. N.B.--I'm writing this two years later (May 2000) and I've figured it out. Cheever was a master of the short story (see Orrin's review of The Stories of John Cheever) and the panel simply rewarded a bad novel in an attempt to acknowledge him as a writer. The book's still dreck, but it makes a little more sense that it made the list. (Reviewed:) Grade: (D) Tweet Websites:See also:John Cheever (2 books reviewed)General Literature Library Journal: Top 150 of the Century Modern Library Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century National Book Award Winners -WIKIPEDIA:John Cheever -REVIEW ESSAY: THE LATE-SUMMER MELANCHOLY OF ‘THE SWIMMER’: John Cheever's story is the perfect thing to read as August nears its end (Nick Ripatrazone, 8/22//22, Gawker) Book-related and General Links: -John Cheever (1912-1982)(kirjasto) -ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA: Your search: "john cheever" -Julie and Janet's Page on John Cheever -ESSAY: John Cheever and Indirection (Rick Moody, Conjunctions) -ESSAY: John Cheever: Parody and The Suburban Aesthetic (John Dyer) -ESSAY: PERSONAL BEST: " T h e S w i m m e r " b y J o h n C h e e v e r (MICHAEL CHABON, Salon) -ESSAY: Saul Bellow: On John Cheever, NY Review of Books -ESSAY: Position Paper on "Goodbye, My Brother" -ESSAY: Addiction in John Cheever's "The Enormous Radio" (Dr. Clifton Snider, Sample Story Analysis) -REMARKS: Brokenness: on form and the short story (Paul Lisicky, Blithe House Quarterly) -ESSAY: WRITERS AND ALCOHOL (Ann Waldron, The Washington Post) -ESSAY: ONE TOO MANY FOR THE MUSE (J. Anthony Lukas, NY Times Book Review) -ESSAY: YADDO (JEAN NATHAN, NY Times Book Review) -LINKS: John Cheever (1912-1982) (Bedford/St. Martins, Lit Links) -LINKS: American Modernism -REVIEW: Robert Towers: Light Touch, NY Review of Books The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever -REVIEW: Elizabeth Hardwick: The Family Way, NY Review of Books The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever -REVIEW: Frederick C. Crews: Domestic Manners, NY Review of Books Drive, He Said by Jeremy Larner Teeth, Dying And Other Matters by Richard G. Stern The Brigadier and the Golf Widow by John Cheever -REVIEW: Thomas R. Edwards: Surprise, Surprise, NY Review of Books The World of Apples by John Cheever People Will Always Be Kind by Wilfrid Sheed Points for a Compass Rose by Evan S. Connell, Jr. -REVIEW: Robert Towers: Up the River, NY Review of Books Falconer by John Cheever A Place to Come To by Robert Penn Warren -REVIEW: of THE JOURNALS OF JOHN CHEEVER By John Cheever (Mary Gordon, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW: of The Journals of John Cheever Edited by Robert Gottlieb (HERBERT MITGANG, NY times) -REVIEW: of The Letters of John Cheever Edited by Benjamin Cheever (JOHN GROSS, NY Times) -REVIEW: of THE LETTERS OF JOHN CHEEVER Edited by Benjamin Cheever (Robert Kiely, NY times Book Review) -REVIEW: of OH WHAT A PARADISE IT SEEMS By John Cheever (John Leonard, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW: of OH WHAT A PARADISE IT SEEMS By John Cheever (Anatole Broyard, NY Times) -REVIEW: of THIRTEEN UNCOLLECTED STORIES BY JOHN CHEEVER Edited by Franklin H. Dennis (Sven Birkerts, NY Times Book Review) -PROFILE: THE CHEEVER CHRONICLE: A DAUGHTER'S BOOK (GLENN COLLINS, NY Times) -REVIEW: Elizabeth Hardwick: Cheever, or The Ambiguities, NY Review of Books Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever -REVIEW: of HOME BEFORE DARK. By Susan Cheever (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, NY times) -REVIEW: of TREETOPS A Family Memoir. By Susan Cheever (Jane Smiley, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW: of JOHN CHEEVER A Biography. By Scott Donaldson (Lorrie Moore, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW: of John Cheever A Biography By Scott Donaldson (MICHIKO KAKUTANI, NY Times) -ARTICLE: Cheever's Widow Suing to Stop Publication of Story Collection (HERBERT MITGANG, NY times) -REVIEW: of UNCOLLECTING CHEEVER The Family of John Cheever vs. Academy Chicago Publishers (Richard Dooling, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW: of UNCOLLECTING CHEEVER. [ The Family of John Cheever vs. Academy Chicago Publishers ] by ANITA MILLER (Peter Kurth, Salon) -REVIEW: of Uncollecting Cheever (Dave Reid, Foreword Magazine) GENERAL:
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