All the Days and Nights

"All the Days and Nights is a cause for celebration. . . . One more brilliant testimony to William Maxwell's eloquence, grace, and wit. Not to mentio his transcendent vision." —Cleveland Plain Dealer

"No one else currently writing cn capture as Maxwell does a sense of life in the blanace, of a moment appreciated. . . Maxwell, dealing in very ordinary days and nights, makes them luminous. . . . the beauty of some sentences is like a stab of light." —Chicago Tribune

"Written with exquisite restraint, the work illustrates the rare sensitivity, telling detail, and bare, graceful prose that have become Maxwell's trademarks. Authentic and spare, the stories balance the tension between life's exhilaration and haunting sadness." —San Francisco Chronicle

"Fiction that . . . honors the physical world with verisimilitude, human experience with emotional fidelity, and the enlgihs langauge with consummate craft." —The Wall Street Journal

"Like their peers in the work of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Porter and Welty, [William Maxwell's stories] slowly lure the reader into ironclad but transparent rooms. . . . He wills us only an elegant pleasure, a deepend vision of our lost past, and a comprehending mercy now, in the smaller world of our diminished present." —Reynolds Price