Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their
unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted
far from their New England village - and into the demented caprices of the
mighty, the bad graces of the IRS and the humiliating abyss of adulterous
passion. A novel of large and tender vision, The Wapshot Scandal is filled
with pungent characters and outrageous twists of fate, and, above all, with
Cheever's luminous compassion for all his hapless fellow prisoners of human
nature.