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So Long, See You Tomorrow
Book Summary
Haunted by a memory of human failure, an aging man recalls his friendship, as a boy, with a tenant farmer's son and forces himself and others to recall the causes of a bloody murder and its consequences. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Genres:
This book is about:
- Bildungsromane,
- Friendship,
- Illinois,
- Murder,
- Teenage boys,
- Fathers and sons,
- Domestic fiction,
- Fiction
NPR stories about So Long, See You Tomorrow
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Devil In The Details: 3 Artful Tales Of Murder
Whether or not murder can ever be "the perfect crime," William Maxwell's So Long, See You Tomorrow is an unassailable perfection of prose, one which forever gives the lie to the notion that editors edit because they can't write. The late, beloved fiction editor for The New Yorker, Maxwell somehow found the time to pen this lean masterwork about fallible memory and fleeting chances. The novel twines stories of rural infidelity, desperate vengeance, and the... more
—Bruce Machart
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In Memory Of A Mentor: 'So Long,' William Maxwell
April 27, 2011 As an aspiring writer, William Lychack was lucky enough to be mentored by his literary hero, longtime New Yorker editor, William Maxwell. Maxwell's novel, So Long, See You Tomorrow, is a meditation on loss and forgiveness; Lychack says every page is touched by care, like rooms of a beautiful house.
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