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All the Days and Nights by William Maxwell
Category: Fiction
Spanning more than 50 years, the stories in this collection encompass the life's work of one of America's best-loved and most acclaimed writers.In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's inimitable wisdom and kindness ...Show more
All the Days and Nights - The Collected Stories by William Maxwell
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From the American Book Award-winning author of Ancestors and Time Will Darken comes a masterful collection of stories, spanning more than 50 years--a tour of a world that engages readers entirely, and whose characters command the deepest loyalty and tenderness.
James Baldwin - The FBI File by William J. Maxwell (Editor); David Leeming
Category: Biography
Available in book form for the first time, the FBI's secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer. Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art and black power. Baldw ...Show more
Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay; William J. Maxwell (Introduction by, Editor); Gary Edward Holcomb (Editor, Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction
The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition. Published for the first time.A Penguin ClassicBuried in the archive for almost ninety ...Show more
SO LONG SEE YOU TOMORROW by WILLIAM MAXWELL
Category: Classic Fiction
In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been kill ...Show more
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Category: Fiction | Series: Panther S.
The story of a murder is framed by the story of a brief friendship between two young boys. One, the narrator, is coping with the recent death of his mother; the other, a farm boy, witnesses his parents and a friend in scenes he neither understands nor wishes to. The narrative goes into his past and expl ...Show more
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Category: Fiction
In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent's misery - is shattered. After the murder and up ...Show more
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Category: Fiction
This Orange Inheritance Edition of "So Long, See You Tomorrow" is published in association with the Orange Prize for Fiction. Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. "Vintage Classic ...Show more
The Chateau by William Maxwell
Category: Fiction
It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for.
The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell
Category: Fiction
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 s ...Show more