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    <body><![CDATA[I've long been a Cheever fan, but believe that he chose a bad title for this one.  It would have been better to have used the plural of scandal in the title, as I kept assuming that I would happen upon a dominant one and that just didn't happen.  I had to be content with reading about one of the Wap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44748871">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Let us just say that William Faulkner is not the only middle aged white man who can expertly craft a sentence while keeping the reader engaged and perplexed at the same time. This book was like reading a simplier version of As I Lay Dying with out the Southern charm and sophistication. It was a good...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70713650">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[   A wonderful writer, this was my first novel of Cheever's, and I was a bit disappointed.  I suppose that it would have been beneficial to read the Wapshot Chronicles (the first in this two part series) before embarking on Scandals.  <br/>  This is the tale of a somewhat dysfunctional Wapshot fami...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24318187">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to <em>The Wapshot Chronicle,</em> the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS, and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion. </p> <p> A novel of large and tender vision, <em>The Wapshot Scandal</em> 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. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first I have read of John Cheever. It is the 2nd book concerning the Wapshots. Had I not been camping, I would have gone to the library and gotten the first for which he won a Pulitzer.<br/>This book was quite a surprise. I am not sure what I expected. The plot is really loose and he do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26024631">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to <em>The Wapshot Chronicle,</em> the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS, and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion. </p> <p> A novel of large and tender vision, <em>The Wapshot Scandal</em> 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. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far I like this book. Cheever, doesn't introduce his characters the way one is introduced to a friend of a friend at a party, he introduces the reader to them the way you might finally be introduced to someone you have been spying on for years. In some cases (so far) these characters exist only f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50660818">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not quite as good as &quot;The Wapshot Chronicles&quot;. He could have either stopped with the first or pared down the first and added some of this. Look at me, I'm an editor.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to <em>The Wapshot Chronicle,</em> the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS, and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion. </p> <p> A novel of large and tender vision, <em>The Wapshot Scandal</em> 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. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The antics of a dysfunctional family.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Falls short of the brilliance of the Wapshot Chronicle but still excellent; comparable to reading any other Salinger than Franny and Zooey]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Companion volume to &quot;The Wapshot Chronicle.&quot; Read 'em both, back-to-back. Funny &amp; wonderful.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the wapshot chronicles is infinitely better, still good]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to <em>The Wapshot Chronicle,</em> the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS, and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion. </p> <p> A novel of large and tender vision, <em>The Wapshot Scandal</em> 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. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[i remember being awfully disappointed]]></body>
    
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