Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris (1981).

The World According to Garp by John Irving (1980).

Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1980).

Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (1979).

The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner (1977).

The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (1975).

^ 'So Long, See You Tomorrow | The Pequod'.

^ 'Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction'.

The reveal kickstarts the BBC's year-long celebration of literature.

^ '100 'most inspiring' novels revealed by BBC Arts'.

^ 'About Lincoln, Illinois, and the Chautauqua'.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. William Maxwell: A selected critical biography (Ph.D.). 'The 75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years'.

^ front cover of 1997 Harvill Press p/b edition.

^ American Academy of Arts and Letters - Award Winners Archived at the Wayback Machine.^ 'So Long, See You Tomorrow, Part Two'.^ 'So Long, See You Tomorrow, Part One'.This is a wondrous novel from start to finish.' Notes In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews stated that the book was 'major accomplishment: a wellnigh faultless, lacerating, and heartbreaking short novel.' The book review site The Pequod rated the book a 10.0 (out of 10), saying, 'Maxwell's story is personal but yet universal, and it leads us to recall our own childhood moments of regret and loss. On November 5, 2019, the BBC News listed So Long, See You Tomorrow on its list of the 100 most influential novels. Also the narrator recounts how he failed to support Cletus, a close school friend who was the son of the murderer, Clarence Smith. Fifty years later the guilt-ridden narrator recounts how the relationships between two neighboring families-the Smiths and the Wilsons-led to the murder of Lloyd Wilson and the suicide of Clarence Smith. So Long, See You Tomorrow is set in Maxwell's hometown of Lincoln, Illinois and tells of a murder that occurred in 1922. The novel is based on fact and has been described as an 'autobiographical metafiction'. In 2016, it was included in a Parade Magazine list of the '75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years'. Michael Ondaatje described it as 'one of the great books of our age'.

It was a finalist for the 1981 Pulitzer Prize. It was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal, and its first paperback edition won a 1982 National Book Award. It was published as a book the following year by Alfred A. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine in October 1979 in two parts. So Long, See You Tomorrow is a novel by American author William Maxwell.

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