Discover William Maxwell's classic, heart-breaking portrait of an ordinary American family struck by the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic
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.
Illness, regret, recovery, loss: it's our times in another key. We
watch as ordinary lives take an extraordinary turn — the flu
felling some and sparing others, and laying bare their emotional
lives as it goes
*Gish Jen*
Maxwell does something all great novelists do: he conjures depths
of pain and regret in words of radiant simplicity
*Observer*
As you read They Came Like Swallows, you catch yourself from time
to time being astonished at how tightly you're gripping the pages…
There isn't a word that has dated. It could have been written
yesterday, or tomorrow
*Guardian*
A story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any
critic… Will melt many a reader to tears
*TIME*
As the voices of Austen, Turgenev and Tolstoy have survived, so
will Maxwell's
*The Times*
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