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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- ^ "THINGS AREN'T WHAT THEY SEEM; A Tragic, Farcical View of Today's World Is Presented in John Cheever's New Novel; THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL. By John Cheever. 309 pp. New York and Evanston: Harper & Row. $4.95". The New York Times. 1964-01-05. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
- ^ "THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL | Kirkus Reviews". 1 January 1963.