num_pages: 135
description: In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers—one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy—has been shattered. Fifty years later, one of those boys—now a grown man—tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who has the misfortune of being the son of Wilson's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that Maxwell's narrator can only guess at. Out of memory and imagination, the surmises of children and the destructive passions of their parents, Maxwell creates a luminous American classic of youth and loss.
language: English
title: So Long, See You Tomorrow
titlecomplete: So Long, See You Tomorrow
genres: Fiction, American, Coming Of Age, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Novella, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 11737
places: Illinois, Lincoln, Illinois
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction (Paperback), awardedAt: 315561600000
name: William Dean Howells Medal, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Hardcover), awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage