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So Long, See You Tomorrow (Panther)
William Maxwell

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So Long, See You Tomorrow (Panther)

The Harvill Press (19 Dec 1997)
9781860464188
| Paperback
135 pages | 130 x 194 mm | English
$ 6.99 | Value: $ 6.99
Dewey 813

Subject

  • Fathers And Sons - Fiction. - Illinois
  • Grief - Fiction. - Illinois
  • Loss (Psychology) - Fiction
  • Male Friendship - Fiction. - Illinois
  • Murder - Fiction. - Illinois
  • Teenage Boys - Fiction. - Illinois

Plot

In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent's misery - is shattered. After the murder and upheavals that follow, the boys never speak again. Fifty years on, the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime's regret.