So Long, See You Tomorrow: National Book Award Winner - Brossura

Maxwell, William

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ISBN 10: 0679767207 ISBN 13: 9780679767206

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1996

Riassunto

Haunted by a memory of human failure, an aging man recalls his friendship, as a boy, with a tenant farmer's son and forces himself and others to recall the causes of a bloody murder and its consequences. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

William Maxwell was born in 1908 in Lincoln, Illinois. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and after earning a master's at Harvard, returned there to teach freshman composition before turning to writing. He published six novels, three collections of short fiction, an autobiographical memoir, a collection of literary essays and reviews, and a book for children. For 40 years, he was a fiction editor at The New Yorker. From 1969 to 1972 he was president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award Medal and, for So Long, See You Tomorrow, the American Book Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2000.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

is farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenous friendship between two lonely boys comes to an end. In telling their interconnected stories, American Book Award winner William delivers a masterfully restrained and magically evocative meditation on the past. "A small, perfect novel."--Washington Post Book World.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679767207
• ISBN 13: 9780679767206
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 144