Time Will Darken It

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On sale Sep 23, 2009 | 372 Pages | 9780307491954

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Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the process, unwittingly jeopardizes his marriage, career, and place in the community.
William Maxwell was born in 1908 in Lincoln, Illinois. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and after earning a master's at Harvard, returned there to teach freshman composition before turning to writing. He published six novels, three collections of short fiction, an autobiographical memoir, a collection of literary essays and reviews, and a book for children. For 40 years, he was a fiction editor at The New Yorker. From 1969 to 1972 he was president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award Medal and, for So Long, See You Tomorrow, the National Book Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2000. View titles by William Maxwell
"Written with sympathy and restraint, and in a prose that is almost poetically direct and sure. . . . If you do not read Time Will Darken It, you will have missed something rare." —San Francisco Chronicle

"An artist who is always doing exactly what he means to do. . . . The story's quiet and accumulating power has a dark and distrubing beauty." —Eudora Welty

"No comparison does Maxwell justice. . . . [In] his fictional worlds we often encounter an intimacy so intense it literally gives us goose bumps." —Cleveland Plain Dealer

"He has a magic way with words. . . . Among the past half-century's few unmistably great novelists." —Village Voice

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Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the process, unwittingly jeopardizes his marriage, career, and place in the community.

Author

William Maxwell was born in 1908 in Lincoln, Illinois. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and after earning a master's at Harvard, returned there to teach freshman composition before turning to writing. He published six novels, three collections of short fiction, an autobiographical memoir, a collection of literary essays and reviews, and a book for children. For 40 years, he was a fiction editor at The New Yorker. From 1969 to 1972 he was president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award Medal and, for So Long, See You Tomorrow, the National Book Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2000. View titles by William Maxwell

Praise

"Written with sympathy and restraint, and in a prose that is almost poetically direct and sure. . . . If you do not read Time Will Darken It, you will have missed something rare." —San Francisco Chronicle

"An artist who is always doing exactly what he means to do. . . . The story's quiet and accumulating power has a dark and distrubing beauty." —Eudora Welty

"No comparison does Maxwell justice. . . . [In] his fictional worlds we often encounter an intimacy so intense it literally gives us goose bumps." —Cleveland Plain Dealer

"He has a magic way with words. . . . Among the past half-century's few unmistably great novelists." —Village Voice

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