Book description
Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman. Yet to eight-year-old Bunny,
his mother is the centre of his universe. To his older brother,
Robert, she is someone he must protect against the dangers of the
outside world. And to James Morison, his wife is the foundation on
which his family rests and life without her is unimaginable.
William Maxwell's unique and moving family portrait confirms his
reputation as one of the twentieth century's finest novelists.
William Maxwell was born on 16th August 1908 in Illinois. 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. His novel,
So Long, See You Tomorrow
won the American Book Award, and he received the PEN/Malamud Award.
