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    So Long, See You Tomorrow

    National Book Award Winner

    Part of Vintage International

    Author William Maxwell
    Introduction by Ann Patchett
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    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale Jan 03, 1996 | 144 Pages | 9780679767206
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    On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenous friendship between two lonely boys comes to an end. In telling their interconnected stories, American Book Award winner William delivers a masterfully restrained and magically evocative meditation on the past.

    "A small, perfect novel."—Washington Post Book World
    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
    "One of the great books of of our age." —Michael Ondaatje

    "A brief novel that approaches perfection. . . . Not a word or sentence could be changed for the better." —The New York Times

    "A masterpiece, a perfect book." —David Nicholls

    "The novel comes from a place so deep inside the human soul that I cannot imagine a time when its wisdom would not feel fresh and applicable. . . . A mosaic of human emtion, a singular and spectacular work of art." —from the introduction by Ann Patchett

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    On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenous friendship between two lonely boys comes to an end. In telling their interconnected stories, American Book Award winner William delivers a masterfully restrained and magically evocative meditation on the past.

    "A small, perfect novel."—Washington Post Book World

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    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

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    "One of the great books of of our age." —Michael Ondaatje

    "A brief novel that approaches perfection. . . . Not a word or sentence could be changed for the better." —The New York Times

    "A masterpiece, a perfect book." —David Nicholls

    "The novel comes from a place so deep inside the human soul that I cannot imagine a time when its wisdom would not feel fresh and applicable. . . . A mosaic of human emtion, a singular and spectacular work of art." —from the introduction by Ann Patchett

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