William Maxwell
3) The chateau
Author
Language
English
Description
Novel about a young American couple's summer in France in 1948 and their relationship with an impoverished family of aristocrats.
Author
Language
English
Description
""The novelist works with what life has given him," wrote William Maxwell. "It was no small gift that I was allowed to lead my boyhood in a small town in Illinois where the elm trees cast a mixture of light and shade over the pavements." The patterns of light, love, and a sorrow in this town, and the domestic particulars of the early 20th century, are at the heart of Maxwell's early fiction. They Came Like Swallows is the story of two boys, their...