About the book: Discover the tragically beautiful world of So Long, See You Tomorrow, a quietly devastating masterpiece of human frailty and resilience
Away from the quiet farmlands of Illinois, two lonely teenagers – bound by the burden of their home lives – forge a delicate friendship.
But when jealousy ignites in one of their families, it leads to unthinkable tragedy, and severs the two boys' bond forever.
Fifty years later, haunted by the past, the narrator seeks to piece together those harrowing events and find redemption for a lifetime of regret.
So Long, See You Tomorrow is a haunting exploration of memory, loss, and the enduring quest for forgiveness.
So Long, See You Tomorrow (2025), originally published 1979, was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2025 and was a finalist for the 1981 Pulitzer Prize. The novel is based on fact and has been described as an "autobiographical metafiction.
About the author: William Maxwell was born in 1908 in Lincoln, Illinois. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and after earning a master’s at Harvard, returned there to teach freshman composition before turning to writing. He published six novels, three collections of short fiction, an autobiographical memoir, a collection of literary essays and reviews, and a book for children. For 40 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 National Book Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2000.
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