So Long, See You Tomorrow

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This article is about the book. For the Bombay Bicycle Club album, see So Long, See You Tomorrow (album).
So Long, See You Tomorrow
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First edition[lower-alpha 1]
Author William Maxwell
Cover artist Maxwell's daughter[lower-alpha 1]
Country United States
Language English
Publisher The New Yorker (magazine)
Knopf (book)
Publication date
 1979 (magazine)
1980 (book)
Media type Print
Pages 135
ISBN 0-394-50835-1

So Long, See You Tomorrow is a novel by American author William Maxwell. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine in October 1979 in two parts[1][2] and appeared in book form the following year, published by Knopf.

It was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal,[3] and its first paperback edition won a 1982 National Book Award.[4][lower-alpha 2] It was also a finalist for the 1981 Pulitzer Prize.[5] Michael Ondaatje described it as "one of the great books of our age".[6]

The novel is based on fact and has been described as an "autobiographical metafiction".[7]

Plot introduction

It is set in Maxwell's hometown Lincoln, Illinois and tells of a murder that occurred in 1921. Fifty years later the guilt-ridden narrator recounts how the relationships between two neighboring families led to the murder and how he himself failed to support Cletus, a close school friend who was the son of the murderer.[8]

Notes

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References

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Awards
Preceded by National Book Award for Fiction
1982
With: Rabbit is Rich
John Updike		 Succeeded by
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Preceded by Succeeded by
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty


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  3. ↑ American Academy of Arts and Letters - Award Winners
  4. ↑ "National Book Awards – 1982". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
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  6. ↑ front cover of 1997 Harvill Press p/b edition
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