They Came Like Swallows (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
160
Utgivningsdatum
2001-12-01
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
The Harvill Press
Dimensioner
197 x 281 x 13 mm
Vikt
154 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781860469282

They Came Like Swallows

av William Maxwell
Häftad,  Engelska, 2001-12-01
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Discover William Maxwell's 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. Yet, to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To Robert, her elder son, she is someone he must protect against the dangers of the outside world. And to her husband, James, she is the foundation on which his family rests and life without her is unimaginable. As the dark winter of 1918 dawns and the shadow of Spanish flu starts to disturb day-to-day life, a moving portrait of Elizabeth takes shape, set against the lives and fate of the Morison family. '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
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Illness, regret, recovery, loss: it's our times in another key. We 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 *

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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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