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# Vintage International classic edition National Book Award Winner 135 pages - perfect quick read So Long, See You Tomorrow: National Book Award Winner (Vintage International)

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## Summary

> 📖 Unlock the past, feel the present — a timeless classic you can't afford to miss!

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## Key Features

- • **Compact Yet Profound:** At just 135 pages, dive into a deeply emotional narrative perfect for busy professionals.
- • **Vintage International Edition:** Own a beautifully curated edition that adds prestige to your personal library.
- • **Critically Acclaimed & Enduring:** Join thousands who rate this classic 4.1 stars for its evocative prose and emotional depth.
- • **Award-Winning Literary Masterpiece:** Celebrate a National Book Award winner that defines timeless storytelling.
- • **A Story That Resonates Across Generations:** Experience a narrative that explores memory, loss, and friendship with unmatched subtlety.

## Overview

So Long, See You Tomorrow is a National Book Award-winning novel by William Maxwell, celebrated for its evocative prose and emotional depth. This vintage edition offers a compact 135-page narrative exploring themes of memory, loss, and friendship set in 1920s rural Illinois. With critical acclaim and a strong reader following, it’s a must-have for discerning literary enthusiasts seeking a profound yet accessible classic.

## Description

Winner of the National Book Award and the William Dean Howells Medal Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction With a new introduction by Ann Patchett "A small, perfect novel." ― Washington Post Book World In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teen-agers—one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy—has been shattered. Fifty years later, one of those boys—now a grown man—tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who had the misfortune of being the son of Wil-son’s killer and who in the months before witnessed things that William Maxwell’s narrator can only guess at. Out of memory and imagination, the surmises of children and the destructive passions of their parents, Maxwell creates a luminous American classic of youth and loss and explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. "William Maxwell is one of the past half-century's unmistakably great novelists." ― Village Voice "What a lovely book, utterly unlike any other in shape I have ever read." ―John Updike

Review: A Deeply Emotional Tale Told with Crisp Precision - Rarely these days do I have the opportunity to read a book in a single sitting. But at a brief 135 pages, I was able to slip seamlessly into the world of this deeply emotional tale, which the Washington Post Book World accurately described as "a small, perfect novel." By page 9 I had already come across gems such as this, with the adult narrator musing back upon life in his family's home after the death of his mother in the 1918 Flu Pandemic: "Between the way things used to be and the way they were now was a void that couldn't be crossed. I had to find an explanation other than the real one, which was that we were no more immune to misfortune than anyone else, and the idea that kept recurring to me, perhaps because of that pacing the floor with my father, was that I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn't have gone through and couldn't get back to the place I hadn't meant to leave. Actually, it was the other way around: I hadn't gone anywhere and nothing had changed, so far as the roof over our heads was concerned, it was just that she was in the cemetery." The simple prose, completely absorbing, masterfully unveils parallel tales of two boys facing the enormity of life at a tender age. I was struck by the beauty of the pace and phrasing, and a narrative demonstrating that the written word can bring to life a collective of whispering voices, with no need for clanging alarm bells even when tragedy drips from the pages. Grammar police might gleefully note the technical errors in the preceding passage. But does your heart care, when the prose is so precise and the emotions so raw? No, in fact, it does not. In short, "So Long, See You Tomorrow" is simply the most beautiful piece of literature I have read in years.
Review: Well written and quirky - Sometimes hard to keep track of the characters because the story meanders among them. The dog broke my heart. Interesting approach but not my favorite.

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #32,405 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,446 in Classic Literature & Fiction #2,036 in Literary Fiction (Books) #2,505 in Historical Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 2,345 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Deeply Emotional Tale Told with Crisp Precision
*by J***Y on January 27, 2014*

Rarely these days do I have the opportunity to read a book in a single sitting. But at a brief 135 pages, I was able to slip seamlessly into the world of this deeply emotional tale, which the Washington Post Book World accurately described as "a small, perfect novel." By page 9 I had already come across gems such as this, with the adult narrator musing back upon life in his family's home after the death of his mother in the 1918 Flu Pandemic: "Between the way things used to be and the way they were now was a void that couldn't be crossed. I had to find an explanation other than the real one, which was that we were no more immune to misfortune than anyone else, and the idea that kept recurring to me, perhaps because of that pacing the floor with my father, was that I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn't have gone through and couldn't get back to the place I hadn't meant to leave. Actually, it was the other way around: I hadn't gone anywhere and nothing had changed, so far as the roof over our heads was concerned, it was just that she was in the cemetery." The simple prose, completely absorbing, masterfully unveils parallel tales of two boys facing the enormity of life at a tender age. I was struck by the beauty of the pace and phrasing, and a narrative demonstrating that the written word can bring to life a collective of whispering voices, with no need for clanging alarm bells even when tragedy drips from the pages. Grammar police might gleefully note the technical errors in the preceding passage. But does your heart care, when the prose is so precise and the emotions so raw? No, in fact, it does not. In short, "So Long, See You Tomorrow" is simply the most beautiful piece of literature I have read in years.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well written and quirky
*by N***R on April 18, 2025*

Sometimes hard to keep track of the characters because the story meanders among them. The dog broke my heart. Interesting approach but not my favorite.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Relationships and their impermanence
*by L***L on October 14, 2021*

"So long" and "See you tomorrow," and went our separate ways in the dusk. And one evening this casual parting turned out to be for the last time. We were separated by that pistol shot." (p. 31). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. The unnamed narrator is researching and recalling a friendship, a murder, and relationships among tenant farmer families in Lincoln, Illinois, during the 1920s. Fifty years after they occurred, he relies on memory, newspaper articles, and archives to piece together the story and events that have been haunting him and occupying his therapy sessions. The storyteller did not have friends as a child and adolescent and believes he betrayed his only true friend, Cletus. The tale is dark and explores youthful friendships as well as bullying, loneliness, and guilt. The narrator suffered several childhood tragedies, including the death of his mother, and his misfortunes occurred while he witnessed but did not fully comprehend the marriages and divorces of Cletus's parents and those of Lloyd and Marie Wilson, neighbors and fellow tenant farmers. He is convinced as an older adult that having a better understanding of the relationships will set his mind at ease. The author mentions more than once that childhood memories are often inaccurate, and children rarely have all aspects of a story in their mental databases. Also, the concept of home, figuratively and literally, and the loss of "home" and its accompanying security as a child, figure into the novel's essence. Thus, this national book award winner is the author's semi-autobiographical narration of a sad endeavor to recreate the past, make amends with his friend and settle his conscience. Maxwell forces us to consider times we have assumed we could see someone "tomorrow" and life interfered.

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