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title: "So Long, See You Tomorrow: National Book Award Winner"
brand: "william maxwell"
price: "€ 44.01"
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# So Long, See You Tomorrow: National Book Award Winner

**Brand:** william maxwell
**Price:** € 44.01
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So Long, See You Tomorrow: National Book Award Winner

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Dtory
*by C***A on June 29, 2025*

Good

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well written and quirky
*by N***R on April 18, 2025*

Sometimes hard to keep track of the characters because the story meanders among them. The dog broke my heart.Interesting approach but not my favorite.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ So Long, Yesterday Is Gone . . .
*by R***N on January 17, 2010*

. . . but still we are haunted by it. By the memories of commonplace objects, events, and places from our youth. And by the recollection of minor failings of our youthful self - instances when, in retrospect, we wish we had acted differently (and acting differently truly was within the realm of possible behavior; it would not have required anything gallant or extraordinary on our part).That is the subject of William Maxwell's gem, SO LONG, SEE YOU TOMORROW. The setting of the story is 1921 in Lincoln, Illinois. The book begins with the nameless narrator telling the story of events of his boyhood from the perspective, and with the imperfect memory, of fifty years hence. He first tells of the murder of a farmer, shot in the early morning while milking cows in his barn. He acknowledges that the event would not bulk so large in memory if "(1) the murderer hadn't been the father of somebody I knew, and (2) I hadn't later on done something I was ashamed of afterward." It is soon revealed who the murderer was - Clarence Smith, the farmer on the adjoining farm, with whose son the narrator had recently formed a boyhood friendship. But the second mystery - whatever the narrator had done that he was ashamed of - is not really made clear until the end of the book. Well before then, the story, now proceeding in the form of an omniscient third-person narrative, has been transformed into an imaginative reconstruction of how the close friendship of Lloyd Wilson and Clarence Smith was sundered by Wilson's obsession with Smith's wife Fern (which she welcomed), and how both families unraveled after their affair became known.William Maxwell was born in Lincoln, Illinois in 1908, and many of the biographical facts of the narrator (for example, his mother dying of influenza after giving birth to a younger brother and his family then moving from his childhood home) are facts of Maxwell's life. Certainly many of the plangent memories of boyhood contained in the novel are Maxwell's memories, and their telling evokes for me (and I am sure, mutatis mutandis, for others as well) memories of my own boyhood - utterly prosaic matters, but because they are the details from life at such an innocent time, full of promise of the life ahead, their irretrievable pastness is now keenly felt and missed.For the most part (the far greater part) the writing is superb. Spare and simple, wise and tender. I have two minor complaints. First, there are a few instances in which the book is over-written, where Maxwell gave too free rein to his authorial skills for what the story could bear. Second, I was somewhat irritated by the way he wrung a little extra (and therefore false) pathos from his story by telling snippets of it from the perspective of Trixie, an abandoned farmdog. Perfection in fiction is rare, but in SO LONG, SEE YOU TOMORROW Maxwell approximates it.

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