Book description
The path to adulthood is littered with broken relationships.
In the suburbs of 1920s Chicago two boys form an unlikely
friendship. Spud Latham is slow at school but quick to fight and a
natural athlete - Lymie Peters, thin, pigeon-chested and terrible at
games, is devoted to him. As they graduate from school to college,
tensions start to surface. It is Lymie who first meets Sally Forbes,
but it is Spud she falls in love with. This signals the end of their
friendship and the rift is almost more than Lymie can bear.
William Maxwell was born in Illinois in 1908. 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. So Long, See You Tomorrow won the American Book Award, and he
received the PEN/Malamud Award. He died in New York in 2000.
