The Chateau

by William Maxwell

Overview

It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679761563
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/07/1995
Series:	Vintage Books Series
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

William Maxwell was born in 1908 in Lincoln, Illinois. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and after earning a master's at Harvard, returned there to teach freshman composition before turning to writing. He published six novels, three collections of short fiction, an autobiographical memoir, a collection of literary essays and reviews, and a book for children. For 40 years, he was a fiction editor at The New Yorker. From 1969 to 1972 he was president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award Medal and, for So Long, See You Tomorrow, the American Book Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2000.

What People are Saying About This

John Updike

Maxwell's voice is one of the wisest in American fiction; it is, as well, one of the kindest.