The Wapshot Scandal

Published by Vintage 1998

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Copyright © John Cheever 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964

Foreword copyright © Dave Eggers 2003

John Cheever has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work

Six parts of this 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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First published in Great Britain by Harper in 1964 First published by Vintage in 1998

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