The Element of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend ...
 Letters that show delight in language and friendship: Sylvia Townsend Warner counted herself very lucky to have William Maxwell as her New Yorker editor and readers of this volume of their correspondence would agree Warner wrote 153 stories between 1936 [... more]
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So Long, See You Tomorrow
Heart-Breaking: Maxwell has always been known as a very pure writer - honest sentiments in concrete images. Take this line from 'So Long, See You Tomorrow' about children sleeping in a quiet winter night as an example: 'sleeping the sleep of stone'. Same [... more]
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Time Will Darken It
Writing From Another Time of Another Time: The world is the less for the death of William Maxwell at age 91 last year. His prose is restrained and precise. He knows the use of silence on the page; his dialogue convinces both in the words and the spaces [... more]
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They Came Like Swallows
From Amazon.com: In the Morison house the important goes unsaid and indirection is the operative mode--conversation stops where it should start and key terms such as fear, pain, pregnancy, fail to be addressed. The younger son, an eight-year-old, passes [... more]
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All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories
powerful images: I've read this book at University as I'm doing a Master on Translation. My teacher is the "official translator" of this book in Spain, so she asked us to translate a couple of short stories: "The Sound of Waves" and & [... more]
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Ancestors: A Family History
Yes, a good book.: This is an interesting, absorbing account of Maxwell's family. The writing is wonderful. William Maxwell's middle initial is K, not F, as this page reads now. Thank you. Author: William Maxwell Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: [... more]
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The Folded Leaf
william maxwell's "the folded leaf": Personally, this book broke my heart. This is a story of an intense friendship, a kind of friendship that can only be had by the young, and the inevitable truth of life--that love eats friendship. The book [... more]
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Complete Poems
McKay's Complete Poems: A Historic Event: Most readers will probably be aware of McKay's 1919 poem "If We Must Die," accurately recognized in anthologies of African American literature as the first openly defiant black insurgent lyric during [... more]
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High Yield Bonds: Market Structure, Valuation, and ...
The best HY book.: I can't say enough about this book. The book is suprisingly easy to read, and uncovers insights from some of the most prominent names in HY research. A must for HY analysts, MBAs, and CFOs. The Best Guide Book to High Yield Bonds Ever: [... more]
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