An extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of American's greatest novelists
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.
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
*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
*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
*John Updike*
Maxwell is one of the past half-century's unmistakably great
novelists
*Village Voice*
Maxwell offers us scrupulously executed, moving landscapes of
America's twentieth century, and they do not fade
*Times Literary Supplement*
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