All the Days and Nights

"William Maxwell's tales, long and short, have the elusive ability to reveal us to ourselves" Erica Wagner, The Times. Spanning more than 50 years, the stories in this collection encompass the life's work of one of America's best-loved and most acclaimed writers. In setting the 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 reunion of two brothers who will never agree, the furniture of the apartment that becomes everything to a childless couple, the search for the perfect French meal or the life of a ne'er-do-well uncle, Maxwell's stories capture responses that are recognisable in us all. "However different their settings the sensibility remains constant. It is decorous, highly civilised and deeply thoughtful" Anthony Quinn, Observer. "All of them share the effect of a brilliant view - as though a window were opened on a contained and vivid scene...There is a rare clarity and economy here - along with that wise measured humanity" Penelope Lively, Spectator.

ISBN 1860469353   Weight (grammes) 362 ISBN13 9781860469350 (What's this?)   Published in London Publisher Vintage   Series title Panther S. Imprint The Harvill Press   Previous ISBN 9781860463082 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 197 Publication date 27 Dec 2001   Width (mm) 131 DEWEY 813.52   Spine width (mm) 27 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General Pages 432

		Preface
		Over by the River (1974)		3
		The Trojan Women (1952)		41
		The Pilgrimage (1953)		51
		The Patterns of Love (1945)		59
		What Every Boy Should Know (1954)		67
		A Game of Chess (1965)		85
		The French Scarecrow (1956)		105
		Young Francis Whitehead (1939)		119
		A Final Report (1963)		125
		Haller's Second Home (1941)		137
		The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michael (1969)		153
		The Value of Money (1964)		173
		The Thistles in Sweden (1976)		191
		The Poor Orphan Girl (1965)		209
		The Lily-White Boys (1986)		215
		Billie Dyer (1989)		221
		Love (1983)		245
		The Man in the Moon (1984)		249
		With Reference to an Incident at a Bridge (1984)		265
		My Father's Friends (1984)		271
		The Front and the Back Parts of the House (1991)		281
		The Holy Terror (1986)		301
		What He Was Like (1992)		309
		A love story		315
		The industrious tailor		319
		The country where nobody ever grew old and died		327
		The fisherman who had nobody to go out in his boat with him		331
		The two women friends		335
		The carpenter		341
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"William Maxwell's tales, long and short, have the elusive ability to reveal us to ourselves, taking us beyond the frozen moment of perfection and guiding us gently into the wonder of uncertainty" Erica Wagner, The Times; "A writer of awesome stature" Eileen Battersby, Irish Times; "Maxwell's sensitive prose is the good and careful tool of an artist who is always doing exactly what he means to do" Eudora Welty

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