A first of two omnibus volumes of best works by the twentieth-century American chronicler of small-town life includes the previously out-of-print "boarding house" comedy, Bright Center of Heaven, as well as an assortment of short stories and early signature novels.[...]
In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's inimitable wisdom and kindness, his sense of the small details that make up a life, the nuances of joy and sadness that change its direction. Whether describing the reuni[...]
This Orange Inheritance Edition of "So Long, See You Tomorrow" is published in association with the Orange Prize for Fiction. Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. "Vintage Cla[...]
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 an[...]
It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for.[...]
This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell's celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of Cavell's most significant readings of American p[...]
On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenous friendship between two lonely boys comes to an end. In telling their interconnected stories, American Book Award winner William delivers a masterfully restrained and magically evocative meditation on the past. "A [...]
CONTENTS Introduction Military Implications of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations Command, Control and Coalition Operations An Historical Perspective The Relationship Between Peacekeeping, and Peace Enforcement Command and the Commander The Essence of Decision-Making in Coalition Operations A Po[...]
On the centennial of William Maxwell's birth, here is the second volume in a two- volume collected edition that reveals the full range of an extraordinary literary voice, a voice that John Updike has called ?one of the wisest in American fiction . . . as well as one of the kindest.? In "Later Novels[...]
When Austin King entertains some distant relatives he unwittingly sets in motion events that will threaten his marriage, his law practice and his standing in the community. Austin's eagerness to please his foster cousin Nora is mistaken for other motives, especially since Nora is besotted with him.[...]
Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman. Yet to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To his older brother, Robert, she is someone he must protect against the dangers of the outside world. And to James Morison, his wife is the foundation on which his family rests and life wi[...]
»Efter att ha läst Hej då, vi ses i morgon tänkte jag: Det är alltså så här det ska göras. Jag tänkte: Om jag bara kunde gå tillbaka och skriva om varenda sak jag skrivit.« ALICE MUNRO I staden där William Maxwell växte upp inträffade en tragedi på tjugotalet: ett mord begicks i en [...]
Nyskrivet efterord av översättaren Staffan Holmgren till William Maxwells Hej då, vi ses i morron. Om Hej då, vi ses i morron: I staden där William Maxwell växte upp inträffade en tragedi på tjugotalet: ett mord begicks i en familj i samband med en skilsmässa. Författaren minns sig själ[...]
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS TODAY, TEXAS EDITION, 2011-2012 encourages students to experience the excitement that comes with being an engaged and informed citizen and provides tools for getting involved and stories of real young people who have made a difference and impacted our political syste[...]