They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell
Discover William Maxwells classic, heart-breaking portrait of an ordinary American family struck by the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic 'A story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any critic Will melt many a reader to tears TIME Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman.
Illness, regret, recovery, loss: it's our times in another keyWe watch as ordinary lives take an extraordinary turn — the flu felling some and sparing others, and laying bare their emotional lives as it goes -- Gish Jen
Maxwell does something all great novelists do: he conjures depths of pain and regret in words of radiant simplicity -- Anthony Quinn * Observer *
As you read They Came Like Swallows, you catch yourself from time to time being astonished at how tightly you're gripping the pages… There isn't a word that has dated. It could have been written yesterday, or tomorrow -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian *
A story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any critic… Will melt many a reader to tears * TIME *
As the voices of Austen, Turgenev and Tolstoy have survived, so will Maxwell's * The Times *
Maxwell does something all great novelists do: he conjures depths of pain and regret in words of radiant simplicity -- Anthony Quinn * Observer *
As you read They Came Like Swallows, you catch yourself from time to time being astonished at how tightly you're gripping the pages… There isn't a word that has dated. It could have been written yesterday, or tomorrow -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian *
A story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any critic… Will melt many a reader to tears * TIME *
As the voices of Austen, Turgenev and Tolstoy have survived, so will Maxwell's * The Times *
William Maxwell was born on 16th August 1908 in Illinois. He was the author of a distinguished body of work: six novels, three short story collections, an autobiographical memoir and a collection of literary essays and reviews. A New Yorker editor for forty years, he helped to shape the prose and careers of John Updike, John Cheever, John O'Hara and Eudora Welty. His novel, So Long, See You Tomorrow won the American Book Award, and he received the PEN/Malamud Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781860469282 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860469280 |
| Title | They Came Like Swallows |
| Author | William Maxwell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2001-12-27 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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