One is about a murder in 1920s Lincoln, Illinois, that results from an adulterous relationship that broke up two families. And, truth be told, So Long, See You Tomorrow does have the feel of an intense and elegant poem. I’m sure there are many of Maxwell’s fans who will tell me I’m deaf to Maxwell’s artistry. It is notable for its extreme emotional reserve and ever-so-delicate craftsmanship. The novel is an exquisitely rendered, jewel-like story that’s told in just 135 pages in its original hardcover edition. So, the high praise for his novel, published when Maxwell was in his early 70s, is not surprising. Salinger, John Cheever, John O’Hara, Eudora Welty, Shirley Hazzard, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Maxwell was The New Yorker’s fiction editor for forty years, working with and gaining the respect of such writers as Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, J.D. In 2016, it was included in a list the 75 best books of the previous 75 years. William Maxwell’s 1980 semi-autobiographical novel So Long, See You Tomorrow, originally published in The New Yorker in two installments, was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize and won a National Book Award.
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