William Maxwell
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenuous friendship between two lonely boys comes to an end. In telling their interconnected stories, American Book Award winner William Maxwell delivers a masterfully restrained and magically evocative meditation on the past.
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
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Description
First published in 1937, They Came Like Swallows was William Maxwell's second novel. It tells of an ordinary American family overtaken by the devastating epidemic of the Spanish influenza of 1918. The book begins on the day before the armistice in a small midwestern town, and the events are seen from the perspective, in turn, of eight-year-old Peter Morison--called Bunny; of his older brother, Robert; and of their father. They are witnesses to a domestic...
3) The château
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
It is 1948, and a battered France is just beginning to receive its first American tourists since the war. Although Harold and Barbara Rhodes are enchanted by the Château Beaumesnil, there is much that bewilders them, in this meeting of two cultures.
Author
Series
Nonpareil book volume 45
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
c1987.
Language
English
Description
A collection of twenty-nine short stories that provide insight into many types of human characters and traits.