Discover this extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of America's greatest novelists.In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much,finally too much,until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator,whose mother has died young,and Cletus Smith,the troubled witness to his parent's misery - is shattered. After the murder and upheavals that follow,the boys never speak again. Fifty years on,the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime's regret. One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099560937Number of pages: 176Weight: 127 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 11 mm
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One of the great books of our age. It is the subtlest of miniatures that contains our deepest sorrows and truths and love - all caught in a clear,simple style in perfect brushstrokesA truly extraordinary novel... Maxwell has tapped a vein of strange,pure emotionSo magically deft at being profound...possesses that daunting quality impossible to emulate: it makes greatness seem simpleMaxwell does something all great novelists do: he conjures depths of pain and regret in words of radiant simplicityThis calm,reflective and extraordinarily beautiful novel offers American fiction at its finest
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