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| They Came Like Swallows |
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| by William Maxwell |
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| In the Morison house the important goes unsaid and indirection is the operative mode--conversation stops where it should start and key terms such as fear, pain, pregnancy, fail to be addressed. The younger son, an eight-year-old, passes his... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 1997 |
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| The Folded Leaf |
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| by William Maxwell |
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| With his careful, unobtrusive art, Mr. Maxwell has made us feel all the coldness and hardness and darkness of Chicago, the prosaic surface of existence which seems to stretch about one like asphalt or ice. But there are moments when the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 1996 |
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| So Long, See You Tomorrow |
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| by William Maxwell |
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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... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 1996 |
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