They Came Like Swallows

Name: They Came Like Swallows
Author: William Maxwell

by William Maxwell

Novel set in post-WWI Illinois exploring family and childhood memories

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William Maxwell

William Maxwell was a beloved editor at The New Yorker and a quiet, deeply felt novelist of Midwestern childhood and memory. So Long See You Tomorrow is widely considered one of the most perfect American novels of the twentieth century.

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