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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( M ) : Maxwell, William
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On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot is fired on a farm in rural Illinois. Lloyd Wilson is dead. A tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother died young, and Cletus Smith, a troubled farmboy - is shattered: Cletus's father committed the murder.
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It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for.
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Set in 1920s Chicago, "The Folded Leaf" follows two very different boys who find themselves forming an unlikely friendship. Lymie is thin, clever and terrible at sport. Spud is athletic and quick to fight and blithely accepts Lymie's passionate devotion to him. The bond between them is obsessively close, until they leave home for college and both find themselves drawn to their new classmate, Sally.
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The collected short stories by one of America's most widely and justly acclaimed writers. Spanning more than fifty years, the twenty-one stories in this collection may be said to represent the life's work of William Maxwell. Whether he is writing about a small town in turn-of-the-century Illinois or the precariously balanced good-life of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Maxwell is always sophisticated yet extremely pleasurable, moving yet unsentimental. And his characters, from the paperboy discovering his emerging sexuality to the American tourist realising that the France he once knew has changed irrevocably, are always sharply drawn, and capture qualities that are only too recognisable in us all.
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"Reading these wonderful, almost-lost stories is like finding a buried treasure of fine gold and silver."--Alison LurieOf the previous century's many great storytellers, Sylvia Townsend Warner was the supreme enchantress. The Music at Long Verney collects twenty of her best short stories, most of them from the great years at The New Yorker. They span a full half-century, from 1929 to 1977, and are crowded with irrepressible, living characters and even more animated objects and incidents. There are stories of romantic love and the mysteries of marriage; of artists who speak the truth even as they distort reality; of gardens and houses and very fine things and of those who fancy themselves their owners. The centerpiece of the collection is a series of five linked stories about an eccentric establishment, the Abbey Antiques Gallery, and its singular proprietor, the urbane Mr. Edom. Some of these stories are hilarious, others hauntingly lyrical, but all are incomparably witty and original--in short, they're vintage Warner.
"On every page," writes John Updike, "there is something to be seen or smelled or felt. . . Beneath her refined witchery lies a strange freshness one can only call, in praise, primitive."
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The National Book Award-winning author of So Long, See You Tomorrow offers an astonishing evocation of a vanished world, as he retraces, branch by branch, the history of his family, taking readers into the lives of settlers, itinerant preachers, and small businessmen, examining the way they saw their world and how they imagined the world to come.
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Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the process, unwittingly jeopardizes his marriage, career, and place in the community. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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Unique among Maxwell's books, the 29 stories in this collection have the timeless quality of folk tales. Though the settings are modern, the concerns are as old as humanity, in the traditions of Aesop and the Brothers Grimm.
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Award-winning author William Maxwell and celebrated illustrator James Stevenson have created an irresistible tale about a feisty dog's search for independence. Filled with droll humor and colorful watercolor illustrations, here's the ideal picture book for every child who has wished for his or her own private paradise.
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With 8 pages of photographs
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8 new stories and most of what was in his last three collections."Beautifully wrought... a radiant collection... Maxwell writes with such clear-eyed sympathy for his characters, such consumate knowledge of their place in a matrix of family and friends." --The New York Times
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Twelve stories by the award-winning author of So Long, See You Tomorrow.
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An instant classic in the literature of friendship: the witty, affectionate 40-year correspondence between a great story-writer and her New Yorker editor.
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Revives characters from the author's youth in Lincoln, Illinois, in the early 1900s in seven stories featuring a successful black surgeon, a sexy elementary school teacher, a rebellious young child, and others. 12,500 first printing.
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The Marvell family unintentionally leaves their Wisconsin farm unattended when they visit their grandmother in Virginia, but a surprising group of close friends comes to the rescue. All ages.