William Maxwell fue un novelista estadounidense y editor de ficción en The New Yorker. Su aclamada ficción, cada vez más considerada como una de las más importantes del siglo XX, explora con frecuencia temas de la infancia, la familia, la pérdida y las vidas que cambian silenciosa e irrevocablemente. Gran parte de su obra es autobiográfica, en particular lo que respecta a la pérdida de su madre en la infancia, lo que moldeó profundamente su visión del mundo. La escritura de Maxwell se caracteriza por una conmovedora reflexión sobre la fugacidad de la vida y un profundo y resonante sentido del lugar.
William Maxwell, a pivotal figure in shaping the literary short story during his tenure at The New Yorker, was also a talented novelist and essayist. Alec Wilkson, drawing from his deep friendship with Maxwell, has curated a collection of the author's lesser-known and unpublished works. This compilation offers a unique glimpse into Maxwell's literary contributions, showcasing both his fiction and nonfiction, enriched by insights from his private papers.
Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau's intimate
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.
Prefazione di William Maxwell
Mariti e mogli prigionieri in matrimoni dove l’amore è assottigliato e sciupato, ma non esausto, abitati da ricordi gioiosi e da strane solitudini, vittime di ossessioni sottili, in fuga – solo immaginaria – dalle regole di una riservatezza che scivola in sofferenza. In sei racconti implacabili, che parlano di disamore, di gesti marmorizzati nell’abitudine, di desiderio struggente di felicità, Maeve Brennan sorprende, raggela e incanta.
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.
Para el niño de ocho años Bunny Morison su madre es una presencia angelical sin la cual nada parece tener vida; para su hermano mayor, Robert, su madre es alguien a quien debe proteger, especialmente desde que la gripe ha comenzado a asolar su pequeña ciudad del Medio Oeste norteamericano; para su padre, James Morison, su mujer Elizabeth es el centro de una vida que se desmoronaría sin ella. A través de los ojos de estos tres personajes, Maxwell retrata a una familia y a la mujer sobre la que ésta se sostiene. Recreando con maestría el ambiente de la clase media estadounidense de principios de los años veinte, Vinieron como golondrinas muestra esas necesidades veladas de amor y comprensión que nos acompañan durante toda nuestra vida. Con esta novela, en la que el autor se enfrenta por primera vez con el recuerdo de la muerte de su madre, Libros del Asteroide emprende la publicación en castellano de la obra de William Maxwell, uno de los más exquisitos autores norteamericanos del siglo XX, y el editor de escritores de la talla de Salinger, Updike o Cheever.
The decision to invite his Southern relatives to stay proves a fateful one for Austin King. Against the perfectly-drawn background of small-town Illinois at the turn of the 20th century, Maxwell once again uncovers the seeds of potential tragedy at the heart of a happily-established family.
Through seven wonderfully moving stories, 40-year New Yorker editor William Maxwell revisits his native town of Lincoln, Illinois, in the early 1900s and brings back some of its inhabitants who peopled his youth and have, through the years, haunted his memories. Billie Dyer -- Love -- The man in the moon -- With reference to an incident at a bridge -- My father's friends -- The front and the back parts of the home -- The holy terror
Spud Latham is slow at school but quick to fight and a natural athlete - Lymie Peters, thin, pigeon-chested and terrible at games, is devoted to him. It is Lymie who first meets Sally Forbes, but it is Spud she falls in love with. This signals the end of their friendship and the rift is almost more than Lymie can bear.
On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot is fired on a farm in rural Illinois. Lloyd Wilson is dead. A tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother died young, and Cletus Smith, a troubled farmboy - is shattered: Cletus's father committed the murder.