So Long, See You Tomorrow
First edition
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| Author | William Maxwell |
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| Cover artist | Maxwell's daughter |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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The New Yorker (magazine) Knopf (book) |
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Publication date
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1979 (magazine) 1980 (book) |
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| Pages | 135 |
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So Long, See You Tomorrow is a novel by American author William Maxwell. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine in October 1979 in two parts and appeared in book form the following year, published by Knopf.
It was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal, and its first paperback edition won a 1982 National Book Award. It was also a finalist for the 1981 Pulitzer Prize.Michael Ondaatje described it as "one of the great books of our age". In 2016, it was included in a Parade Magazine list of the 75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years.
The novel is based on fact and has been described as an "autobiographical metafiction".
It is set in Maxwell's hometown Lincoln, Illinois and tells of a murder that occurred in 1921. Fifty years later the guilt-ridden narrator recounts how the relationships between two neighboring families led to the murder and how he himself failed to support Cletus, a close school friend who was the son of the murderer.
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