Book description
It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday,
full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are
war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all
the open-hearted Americans could wish for. 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.
