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So Long, See You Tomorrow: National Book Award Winner
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ISBN10: 0679767207
ISBN13: 9780679767206
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jan 3 1996
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Awards: National Book Awards
ISBN13: 9780679767206
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jan 3 1996
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Awards: National Book Awards
Winner of the National Book Award and the William Dean Howells Medal
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
With a new introduction by Ann Patchett A small, perfect novel. ―Washington Post Book World In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teen-agers--one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy--has been shattered. Fifty years later, one of those boys--now a grown man--tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who had the misfortune of being the son of Wil-son's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that William Maxwell's narrator can only guess at. Out of memory and imagination, the surmises of children and the destructive passions of their parents, Maxwell creates a luminous American classic of youth and loss and explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. William Maxwell is one of the past half-century's unmistakably great novelists. ―Village Voice What a lovely book, utterly unlike any other in shape I have ever read. ―John Updike
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
With a new introduction by Ann Patchett A small, perfect novel. ―Washington Post Book World In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teen-agers--one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy--has been shattered. Fifty years later, one of those boys--now a grown man--tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who had the misfortune of being the son of Wil-son's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that William Maxwell's narrator can only guess at. Out of memory and imagination, the surmises of children and the destructive passions of their parents, Maxwell creates a luminous American classic of youth and loss and explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. William Maxwell is one of the past half-century's unmistakably great novelists. ―Village Voice What a lovely book, utterly unlike any other in shape I have ever read. ―John Updike
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