The Wapshot Scandal is a novel by American writer John Cheever

John Cheever

John William Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy,...

, a follow-up to his National Book Award-winning The Wapshot Chronicle

The Wapshot Chronicle

The Wapshot Chronicle is the debut novel by John Cheever about an eccentric family that lives in a Massachusetts fishing village. Published in 1957, the book won the National Book Award in 1958, and was later followed by a sequel, The Wapshot Scandal, published in 1964.The Wapshot Chronicle is the...

. It was Cheever's second published novel, and won the William Dean Howells Medal in 1965. The scandal of the title involves one of the Wapshot wives running off with a 16 year-old bagboy from the local A&P and making a life with him in Italy.