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Book · 1957 · Fiction

The Wapshot Chronicle

John Cheever
Perennial · 400 pages
★ 6.5 editorial score

Leander Wapshot pilots a decrepit ferry while his rich cousin dangles the family fortune at his sons, payable only if they father sons. Cheever sends the boys into an America that baffles them.

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Novel
Time
1957Depicts 1950s

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“Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.”

Alfred Kinsey