The Wapshot Scandal

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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.

References

^ "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.

v t e John Cheever
Novels	The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) The Wapshot Scandal (1964) Bullet Park (1969) Falconer (1977) Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982)
Short story collections	The Way Some People Live (1943) The Enormous Radio and Other Stories (1953) The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories (1958) Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel (1961) The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964) The World of Apples (1973) The Stories of John Cheever (1978) Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever (1994)
Short stories	"Expelled" (1930) "Fall River" (1931) "Late Gathering" (1931) "The Brothers" (1937) "Publick House" (1941) "The Enormous Radio" (1947) "Torch Song" (1947) "The Hartleys" (1949) "Goodbye, My Brother" (1951) "O Youth and Beauty!" (1953) "The Five-Forty-Eight" (1954) "The Day the Pig Fell Into the Well" (1954) "The Country Husband" (1954) "The Wrysons" (1958) "The Scarlet Moving Van" (1959) "The Music Teacher" (1959) "The Seaside Houses" (1961) "Reunion" (1962) "The Swimmer" (1964) "The Geometry of Love" (1966) "The World of Apples" (1966) "The Fourth Alarm (1970) "Artemis, the Honest Well-Digger" (1972)
Adaptations	"The Country Husband" (Playhouse 90) (1956) The Swimmer (1968) The Five Forty-Eight (1979) Parc (2008)

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