So Long, See You Tomorrow
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446418109
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

So Long, See You Tomorrow

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3 Sep 2012
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1 Aug 2011
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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

In the quiet farmlands of Illinois, two lonely teenagers – bound by the burden of their rural lives – forge a delicate friendship. But when jealousy ignites between their farming families, it leads to unthinkable tragedy, and severs their bond forever.

Fifty years later, haunted by the past, the narrator seeks to piece together those harrowing events and find redemption for a lifetime of regret. So Long, See You Tomorrow is a haunting exploration of memory, loss, and the enduring quest for forgiveness.

‘One of the great books of our age. It is the subtlest of miniatures that contains our deepest sorrows and truths and love’ Michael Ondaatje
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446418109
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176
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About the author

William Maxwell

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 and a collection of literary essays and reviews. A New Yorker editor for 40 years, 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.

Also by William Maxwell

The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales
The Element of Lavishness
The Folded Leaf
The Chateau
They Came Like Swallows
All the Days and Nights
Time Will Darken It
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Praise for So Long, See You Tomorrow

A truly extraordinary novel... Maxwell has tapped a vein of strange, pure emotion

Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday

Maxwell does something all great novelists do: he conjures depths of pain and regret in words of radiant simplicity

Anthony Quinn, Observer

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

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

So magically deft at being profound...possesses that daunting quality impossible to emulate: it makes greatness seem simple

Richard Ford

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