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smcleish 's review for:

The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever, Rick Moody
3.0

Originally published on my blog here in March 2000.

It took me a long time to get into The Wapshot Chronicle, the supposedly hilarious story of the old family of the Wapshots in their New England small town. Most of it I found not interesting enough to be funny..

There are occasional amusing paragraphs, but it is not until near the end when I realised that the section about Moses Wapshot's married life was a parody of Henry James that I began to enjoy it more.