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So Long, See You Tomorrow is a novel by American author William Maxwell. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine in October 1979 in two parts.[1][2] It was published as a book the following year by Alfred A. Knopf. It was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal,[3] and its first paperback edition won a 1982 National Book Award.[4][b] It was a finalist for the 1981 Pulitzer Prize.[5] Michael Ondaatje described it as "one of the great books of our age".[6] In 2016, it was included in a Parade Magazine list of the "75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years".[7] The novel is based on fact and has been described as an "autobiographical metafiction".[8] So Long, See You Tomorrow is set in Maxwell's hometown of Lincoln, Illinois and tells of a murder that occurred in 1922. Fifty years later the guilt-ridden narrator recounts how the relationships between two neighboring families—the Smiths and the Wilsons—led to the murder of Lloyd Wilson and the suicide of Clarence Smith. Also the narrator

So Long, See You Tomorrow (novel) - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1979 novel by William Maxwell This article is about the book. For the Bombay Bicycle Club album, see So Long, See You Tomorrow (album) . So Long, See You Tomorrow First edition [ a ] Author William Maxwell Cover artist Brookie Maxwell [ a ] Language English Publisher The New Yorker (magazine) Knopf (book) Publication date 1979 (magazine) 1980 (book) Publication place United States Media type Print Pages 135 ISBN 0-394-50835-1 So Long, See You Tomorrow is a nov

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