So Long, See You Tomorrow
Author | : William Maxwell |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2010-12-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781446418109 |
ISBN-13 | : 1446418103 |
Rating | : 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Discover this extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of America's greatest novelists. In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent's misery - is shattered. After the murder and upheavals that follow, the boys never speak again. Fifty years on, the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime's regret. **One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**