Wapshot Scandal

"The mythic element in [this work] is more indigenous and contained beneath the surface of character and event than in (for instance) John Updike's 'The Centaur' or Thornton Wilder's 'The Cabala'. ...As for Mr. Cheever, he is a very good writer indeed. His new novel is rich and tricky and full of surprises. More than anyone except perhaps Nabokov (and he does not suffer from Nabokov's sudden plunges into pure grotesquerie), he is able to use the objects, the scenes and the attributes of contemporary life for the purposes of art. Ugliness, pain, loneliness and horror are not softened but understood and valued without sentiment, without moralizing and (it seems to me) with profound good sense that approaches wisdom."Cheever, John is the author of 'Wapshot Scandal', published 2003 under ISBN 9780060528881 and ISBN 0060528885.