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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 14/12/2010
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ISBN: 9781446418109
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Length: 176 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent's misery - is shattered. After the murder and upheavals that follow, the boys never speak again. Fifty years on, the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime's regret.
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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 14/12/2010
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ISBN: 9781446418109
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Length: 176 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"One of the great books of our age. It is the subtlest of miniatures that contains our deepest sorrows and truths and love - all caught in a clear, simple style in perfect brushstrokes"
Michael Ondjaate
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"A truly extraordinary novel... Maxwell has tapped a vein of strange, pure emotion"
Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday
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"So magically deft at being profound...possesses that daunting quality impossible to emulate: it makes greatness seem simple"
Richard Ford
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"Maxwell does something all great novelists do: he conjures depths of pain and regret in words of radiant simplicity"
Anthony Quinn, Observer
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"This calm, reflective and extraordinarily beautiful novel offers American fiction at its finest"
Irish Times
