So Long, See You Tomorrow (novel)

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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 Brookie Maxwell[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] It was published as a book the following year by Alfred A. 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 a finalist for the 1981 Pulitzer Prize.[5] Michael Ondaatje described it as "one of the great books of our age".[6] In 2016, it was included in a Parade Magazine list of the "75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years".[7]

The novel is based on fact and has been described as an "autobiographical metafiction".[8]

Plot introduction

So Long, See You Tomorrow is set in Maxwell's hometown of Lincoln, Illinois and tells of a murder that occurred in 1922. Fifty years later the guilt-ridden narrator recounts how the relationships between two neighboring families—the Smiths and the Wilsons—led to the murder of Lloyd Wilson and the suicide of Clarence Smith. Also the narrator recounts how he failed to support Cletus, a close school friend who was the son of the murderer, Clarence Smith.[9]

Critical reception

On November 5, 2019, the BBC News listed So Long, See You Tomorrow on its list of the 100 most influential novels.[10]

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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