The Chateau
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Publishing:4th Jun '26
£10.99
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A nostalgic tale of two lovers journey through war-torn France from the author of SO LONG, SEE YOU TOMORROW
‘Exquisitely perceived and fastidiously rendered’’
The New York Times
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.
‘Reading The Chateau is like meeting a very old friend with whom the conversation is always spontaneous, intimate, restorative and unpredictable’
Sally Vickers
Not just a book of the year but now one of my desert island books. * Herald Scotland *
Delicious and dead-on... All the embarrassments and gratifications of European travel are preserved in the amber of Maxwell's much pondered, seemingly casual prose. * New Yorker *
As the voices of Austen, Turgenev and Tolstoy have survived, so will Maxwell's. There aren't many truly great writers among us. William Maxwell is one of them * The Times *
It's hard not to see it as a work of genius * Times Literary Supplement *
He combines educated intelligent and instinctive apprehension of human complexity in a way that would have earned Henry James' approval. William Maxwell is the very model of what a novelist should be * Independent on Sunday *
Perennially endearing * Spectator *
Reading The Chateau is like meeting a very old friend with whom the conversation is always spontaneous, intimate, restorative and unpredictable
ISBN: 9781529990461
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm
Weight: 500g
416 pages