The Folded Leaf
  • Published: 1 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099573593
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $32.99
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Maxwell is the unsung hero of American literature. This is a beautifully observed and moving novel about growing up.

The path to adulthood is littered with broken relationships.

In the suburbs of 1920s Chicago two boys form an unlikely friendship. Spud Latham is slow at school but quick to fight and a natural athlete - Lymie Peters, thin, pigeon-chested and terrible at games, is devoted to him. As they graduate from school to college, tensions start to surface. It is Lymie who first meets Sally Forbes, but it is Spud she falls in love with. This signals the end of their friendship and the rift is almost more than Lymie can bear.
  • Published: 1 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099573593
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $32.99
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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 Chateau
They Came Like Swallows
All the Days and Nights
So Long, See You Tomorrow
Time Will Darken It
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Praise for The Folded Leaf

So fresh is Maxwell's wisdom on adolescent insecurities, hesitancies and blind worship that it is hard to imagine that his words are more than half a century old

Sunday Times

A novel of major quality, the fruit of real engagement with other people and the course of their lives

Independent on Sunday

Few novels have charted the end of boyhood and the coming of adult wisdom as subtly and humanely as Maxwell in this profound, atmospheric work which is as moving as it is shrewd and often funny

Irish Times

A true, beautiful and profoundly poignant novel. It is so good it almost seems miraculous

New York Times