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The Folded Leaf
William Maxwell
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Description for The Folded Leaf
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 135 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
The path to adulthood is littered with broken relationships.
In the suburbs of 1920s Chicago two boys form an unlikely friendship. Spud Latham is slow at school but quick to fight and a natural athlete - Lymie Peters, thin, pigeon-chested and terrible at games, is devoted to him. As they graduate from school to college, tensions start to surface. It is Lymie who first meets Sally Forbes, but it is Spud she falls in love with. This signals the end of their friendship and the rift is almost more than Lymie can bear.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099573593
SKU
V9780099573593
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About William Maxwell
William Maxwell was born in Illinois in 1908. He was the author of a distinguished body of work: six novels, three short story collections, an autobiographical memoir and a collection of literary essays and reviews. A New Yorker editor for forty years, he helped to shape the prose and careers of John Updike, John Cheever, John O'Hara and Eudora Welty. ... Read more
Reviews for The Folded Leaf
So fresh is Maxwell's wisdom on adolescent insecurities, hesitancies and blind worship that it is hard to imagine that his words are more than half a century old
Sunday Times
A true, beautiful and profoundly poignant novel. It is so good it almost seems miraculous
New York Times
A novel of major quality, the fruit of ... Read more
Sunday Times
A true, beautiful and profoundly poignant novel. It is so good it almost seems miraculous
New York Times
A novel of major quality, the fruit of ... Read more