So Long, See You Tomorrow: Virtage International Edition (Vintage International): National Book Award Winner - Softcover

Maxwell, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679767207 ISBN 13: 9780679767206

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1996

Synopsis

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 teenagers--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 has the misfortune of being the son of Wilson's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that 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.

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Review:

"One of the great books of our age. It is the subtlest of miniatures that contains our deepest sorrows and truths and love - all caught in a clear, simple style in perfect brushstrokes" (Michael Ondjaate)

"A truly extraordinary novel... Maxwell has tapped a vein of strange, pure emotion" (Philip Hensher Mail on Sunday)

"So magically deft at being profound...possesses that daunting quality impossible to emulate: it makes greatness seem simple" (Richard Ford)

"Maxwell does something all great novelists do: he conjures depths of pain and regret in words of radiant simplicity" (Anthony Quinn Observer)

"This calm, reflective and extraordinarily beautiful novel offers American fiction at its finest" (Irish Times)

Book Description:

CHOSEN BY ANN PATCHETT AS HER ORANGE INHERITANCE - Vintage Classics has partnered with The Orange Prize for Fiction to ask six recipients of the Prize which book they would pass onto the next generation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679767207
• ISBN 13: 9780679767206
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144