The Wapshot Scandal

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First published in the U.S.A. 1964 Published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz 1964 Published in Penguin Books 1968 Copyright © John Cheever, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964

Six parts of the book appeared in The New Yorker and one in Esquire and the author is grateful to the editors for their permission to reprint

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