The Chateau

Not just a book of the year but now one of my desert island books. * Herald Scotland *
Delicious and dead-on… All the embarrassments and gratifications of European travel are preserved in the amber of Maxwell’s much pondered, seemingly casual prose. * New Yorker *
As the voices of Austen, Turgenev and Tolstoy have survived, so will Maxwell’s. There aren’t many truly great writers among us. William Maxwell is one of them * The Times *
It’s hard not to see it as a work of genius * Times Literary Supplement *
He combines educated intelligent and instinctive apprehension of human complexity in a way that would have earned Henry James’ approval. William Maxwell is the very model of what a novelist should be * Independent on Sunday *
Perennially endearing * Spectator *
Surprising on every page… I ended The Château feeling very sad that it was over – Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life
Reading The Chateau is like meeting a very old friend with whom the conversation is always spontaneous, intimate, restorative and unpredictable

William Maxwell (1908-2000) was born in Illinois. He was the author of a distinguished body of work:

• Six novels
• Three short story collections
• An autobiographical memoir
• A collection of literary essays and reviews

Maxwell was a New Yorker editor for 40 years, where he helped to shape the prose and careers of John Updike, John Cheever, John O’Hara, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Eudora Welty. His novel, So Long Tomorrow, won the American Book Award, and in 1995, he received the PEN/Malamud Award.

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