So Long, See You Tomorrow
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Jul '12
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An extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of American's greatest novelists
Discover this extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of America's greatest novelists.
In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide.
Discover this extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of America's greatest novelists.
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 upheavals that follow, the boys never speak again. Fifty years on, the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime's regret.
**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
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
A truly extraordinary novel... Maxwell has tapped a vein of strange, pure emotion -- Philip Hensher * Mail on Sunday *
So magically deft at being profound...possesses that daunting quality impossible to emulate: it makes greatness seem simple -- Richard Ford
Maxwell does something all great novelists do: he conjures depths of pain and regret in words of radiant simplicity -- Anthony Quinn * Observer *
This calm, reflective and extraordinarily beautiful novel offers American fiction at its finest * Irish Times *
ISBN: 9780099560937
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 11mm
Weight: 127g
176 pages