The Folded Leaf

by William Maxwell

Overview

Here is a classic novel from one of our most honored writers—the author of such acclaimed works as So Long, See You Tomorrow and All the Days and Nights." The Folded Leaf is the serenely observed yet deeply moving story of two boys finding one another in the Midwest of the 1920s, when childhood lasted longer than it does today and even adults were more innocent of what life could bring.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679772569
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/01/1996
Series:	Vintage International , #1
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

William Maxwell was born in 1908, in Lincoln, Illinois. When he was fourteen his family moved to Chicago and he continues his education there and at the University of Illinois.  After a year of graduate work at Harvard he went back to Urbana and taught freshman composition, and then turned to writing.  He has published six novels, three collections of literary essays and reviews, and a book for children.  For forty 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

Edmund Wilson

A quite unconventional novel...very much lived and very much seen...moving and absorbing.