- Fiction, Fathers and sons in fiction, Teenage boys, Murder
On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers - one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy - has been shattered.
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Grave, earnest, contemplative and prestige.
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- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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- Author
- William Maxwell
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 135
- Publisher
- Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Knopf, D.R. Godine
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780436276101
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William Keepers Maxwell Jr. (August 16, 1908 – July 31, 2000) was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. He served as a fiction editor at *The New Yorker* from 1936 to 1975. An editor devoted to his writers, Maxwell became a mentor and confidant to many authors.
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