No one came to the pit through the field that lay alongside it, and they didn’t see anyone walking on the road. Or, they agreed, it could have been a car backfiring. “One winter morning shortly before daybreak, three men loading gravel there heard what sounded like a pistol shot. It is a book which will almost certainly feature on my books of the year list. So my thoughts about this book might be brief – because the story is simple – but what the author achieves with this astonishing novel is hard to put into words. This is one such, it’s a book I am in danger of buying for everyone I know who reads. Some novels are difficult to write about adequately. ‘So Long, see you Tomorrow’ is a novel written with the wisdom of age and the knowledge that those early griefs never do leave us. However, this novel is a work of far greater genius than that earlier novel (exquisite and well worth reading though it is). This novel, written when the author was in his seventies comes from the same place of raw grief. ‘ So Long, See You Tomorrow’ is the second William Maxwell novel that I have read, last year I read ‘They Came like Swallows’ – a beautifully poignant book which Maxwell wrote in the 1930’s.
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