Folded Leaf - Couverture souple

Maxwell, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0879233516 ISBN 13 : 9780879233518

Editeur : David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 1994

Synopsis

From the author of SO LONG, SEE YOU TOMORROW, a title which tells of two teenage boys growing up in Chicago during the 1920s, documenting how their friendship changes when they reach university, when one of the boys meets a girl.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

William Maxwell was born in 1908, in Lincoln, Illinois. When he was fourteen his family moved to Chicago and he continues his education there and at the University of Illinois.  After a year of graduate work at Harvard he went back to Urbana and taught freshman composition, and then turned to writing.  He has published six novels, three collections of literary essays and reviews, and a book for children.  For forty years he was a fiction editor at The New Yorker. From 1969 to 1972 he was president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters,  He received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award Medal and, for So Long, See You Tomorrow,  the American Book Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2000.

Revue de presse

"So fresh is Maxwell's wisdom on adolescent insecurities, hesitancies and blind worship that it is hard to imagine that his words are more than half a century old" (Sunday Times)

"A true, beautiful and profoundly poignant novel. It is so good it almost seems miraculous" (New York Times)

"A novel of major quality, the fruit of real engagement with other people and the course of their lives" (Independent on Sunday)

"Few novels have charted the end of boyhood and the coming of adult wisdom as subtly and humanely as Maxwell in this profound, atmospheric work which is as moving as it is shrewd and often funny" (Irish Times)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0879233516
• ISBN 13: 9780879233518
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 274
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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