{"product_id":"william-maxwell-a-literary-life-9780252030185","title":"William Maxwell  A Literary Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe illustrious life and works of the famous \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e editor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Maxwell gets his due in this combination of biography and critical study . . . this solid book will work as a guarantee against future neglect.\"--\u003ci\u003eALA Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In deeply layered, supple, and clear prose, Burkhardt captures the dramas of Maxwell's life. . . . Burkhardt explores Maxwell's fiction as though opening a door to a new world, a world as wide as the prairie skies that define Maxwell's imaginative universe.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A valiant attempt to chart the relations between the stories Maxwell told and the stories he lived. . . . \u003ci\u003eWilliam Maxwell\u003c\/i\u003e rises splendidly to the occasion of his best novels and stories.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Very capably opens discussion of a long-overlooked writer, and sheds much useful light on his coming-of-intellectual-age.\"--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Required reading for any devoted Maxwell enthusiast.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“William Maxwell is a timely and important book, created out of Barbara Burkhardt’s perceptive vision of the man and his work, her painstaking scholarship, and her unique access to Maxwell himself.”--Penelope Niven, author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eCarl Sandburg: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   ix\u003cbr\u003e Credits   xiii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Meeting Maxwell   1\u003cbr\u003e Introduction   7\u003cbr\u003e 1. Childhood: A Lifetime of Material, 1908-33   19\u003cbr\u003e 2. First Fiction: \u003ci\u003eBright Center of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e, 1933-34   48\u003cbr\u003e 3. Breakout Novel: \u003ci\u003eThey Came Like Swallows\u003c\/i\u003e, 1934-38   61\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mature Novelist 1: \u003ci\u003eThe Folded Leaf\u003c\/i\u003e, 1938-45   79\u003cbr\u003e 5. Mature Novelist 2: \u003ci\u003eTime Will Darken It, \u003c\/i\u003e1945-48   135\u003cbr\u003e 6. Turning Point: \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Chateau\u003c\/i\u003e, 1948-61   171\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Novelist as Historian: \u003ci\u003eAncestors\u003c\/i\u003e, 1961-71   205\u003cbr\u003e 8. Maxwell's New York, 1974-76   219\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Masterwork: \u003ci\u003eSo Long, See You Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e, 1972-80   229\u003cbr\u003e 10. Summing Up: Late Short Works, 1980-92   257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Stand, Accepting   270\u003cbr\u003e Notes   275\u003cbr\u003e Index   297\u003cbr\u003e Illustrations follow page 170","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036809167191,"sku":"9780252030185","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252030185.jpg?v=1750932627","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/william-maxwell-a-literary-life-9780252030185","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}