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Title: Time Will Darken It by William Maxwell ISBN: 0-679-77258-8 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 February, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Please read.
Comment: I grew up in the American Midwest, 80 years after Maxwell. But in his books I feel myself condensed and distilled, and all the work and love and sorrow of the world brought to life, as intimate as a family portrait in a drawer.
Maxwell quotes an Italian painter in the epigraph to this book. I am reminded of a painting, too: Mary holds the dying Jesus in her arms, while behind her dozens of 15th-century Florentines carry out their lives, bartering and joking and courting each other. I cried, looking at it. Maxwell's work is so piercing because the lives of each of his characters affects but does not contain within it the lives of all the others. A woman's dying son is the whole world's grief, but first of all it is hers alone. In a world in which lives and ideas are generated and immediately discarded, I am grateful for the presence of Maxwell's words in my life.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book that will stay with you long after it is read
Comment: Maxwell's second finest (after "So Long See You Tomorrow") is an insightful view into the complex workings of even a successful marriage and the high price of human weakness. The dark view of Austin's susceptibility to the flattery of a younger, easier nature in Nora is borne out by the shock of the latter part of the book. Time does indeed darken it. Maxwell is truly one of our finest writers, underappreciated due in large part to his elegant restraint. Like a true Midwesterner, there is nothing flashy in his prose. It is as austere as it is powerful. This is truly a memorable book, which will stay with you long after it is set down.
Rating: 2
Summary: Time will darken it
Comment: This was so not at all what I was expecting and its pace was excruitatingly slow. Perhaps I wasn't in the right frame of mind when I read this, but I couldn't force myself past the first chapter, which was frustrating. I let the book sit and tried again a month later and I still simply couldn't embrace the world created here.
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Title: So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell ISBN: 0679767207 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell ISBN: 067977257X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 25 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Ancestors : A Family History by William Maxwell ISBN: 0679759298 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Chateau by William Maxwell ISBN: 067976156X Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 07 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell ISBN: 0679772561 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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