All the Days and Nights

William Maxwell's tales, long and short, have the elusive ability to reveal us to ourselves

Erica Wagner, The Times

However different their settings the sensibility remains constant. It is decorous, highly civilised and deeply thoughtful

Anthony Quinn, Observer

All of them share the effect of a brilliant view - as though a window were opened on a contained and vivid scene...There is a rare clarity and economy here - along with that wise measured humanity

Penelope Lively, Spectator

The stories are formidable...we know we are in the presence of a master craftsman

Sydney Morning Herald

Maxwell's triumph is to bring brightness and a seething, submerged emotion to an America long dead... he offers us scrupulously executed, moving landscapes of American's twentieth century, and they do not fade

Claire Messud, Times Literary Supplement