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The Wapshot Scandal
By John Cheever, foreword by Dave Eggers
HarperPerennial, 320 pages, $12.95 paper
In these days of corked bats and Martha Stewart, this sequel to the better-known “The Wapshot Chronicles,” first published in 1959, is a reminder that this stuff is nothing new. In the masterful hands of John Cheever, this tale of a New England family and public humiliation over disclosures of infidelity and IRS fraud is wonderfully drawn, full of satirical humor and yet infused with generosity.
