The Wapshot Scandal

The Wapshot Scandal is the second novel by American writer John Cheever.

[1][2] The book followed The Wapshot Chronicle, and was awarded the 1965 William Dean Howells Medal.

The scandal of the title involves one of the Wapshot wives running off with a 19-year-old bagboy from the local A&P and making a life with him in Italy.

The book is written in Cheever's signature style, and in part seeks to engage with issues of American civilization coping in a nuclear and automated age.

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