So Long, See You Tomorrow

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  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1981)
  • National Book Award for Fiction (Paperback) (1982)
  • William Dean Howells Medal (1980)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1980)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (Hardcover) (1981)
  • Society of Midland Authors Award for Fiction (1980)
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So Long, See You Tomorrow

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ISBN: 9780679767206
Authors: William Maxwell
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 1996-01-03
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Classics, Literature
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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 killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers—one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy—has been shattered. Fifty years later, one of those boys—now a grown man—tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who has the misfortune of being the son of Wilson's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that Maxwell's narrator can only guess at. Out of memory and imagination, the surmises of children and the destructive passions of their parents, Maxwell creates a luminous American classic of youth and loss.
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