So Long, See You Tomorrow
$21.24
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
3 September 2012
Summary
An extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of American’s greatest novelists.
Discover the tragically beautiful world of So Long, See You Tomorrow, a quietly devastating masterpiece of human frailty and resilience.
Away from the quiet farmlands of Illinois, two lonely teenagers - bound by the burden of their home lives - forge a delicate friendship. But when jealousy ignites in one of their families, it leads to unthinkable tragedy, and severs the two boys’ bond for…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099560937 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099560933 |
| Author: | William Maxwell |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 126g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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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
A mosaic of human emotion, a singular and spectacular work of art… some of the greatest truths I’ve read are held in these 153 pages – Ann PatchettA masterpiece, a perfect book – David NichollsA perfect novel * Paul Lynch *Extraordinary * Daily Mail *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 brushstrokesA truly extraordinary novel… Maxwell has tapped a vein of strange, pure emotion * Mail on Sunday *So magically deft at being profound…possesses that daunting quality impossible to emulate: it makes greatness seem simpleMaxwell does something all great novelists do: he conjures depths of pain and regret in words of radiant simplicity * Observer *This calm, reflective and extraordinarily beautiful novel offers American fiction at its finest * Irish Times *Maxwell’s voice is one of the wisest in American fiction; it is, as well, one of the kindest
About The Author
William Maxwell
William Maxwell was born in Illinois in 1908. He was the author of a distinguished body of work- six novels, three short story collections, an autobiographical memoir and a collection of literary essays and reviews. A New Yorker editor for forty years, he helped to shape the prose and careers of John Updike, John Cheever, John O’Hara and Eudora Welty. So Long, See You Tomorrow won the American Book Award, and he received the PEN/Malamud Award. He died in New York in 2000.
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