Dimensions
131 x 197 x 27mm
The collected short stories by one of America's most widely and justly acclaimed writers.
Spanning more than fifty years, the twenty-one stories in this collection may be said to represent the life's work of William Maxwell. Whether he is writing about a small town in turn-of-the-century Illinois or the precariously balanced good life of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Maxwell is always sophisticated yet extremely pleasurable, moving yet unsentimental.
And his characters, from the paperboy discovering his emerging sexuality to the American tourist realising that the France he once knew has changed irrevocably, are always sharply drawn, and capture qualities that are only too recognisable in us all.
