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| 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 | |
| Pages | 135 |
| ISBN | 0-394-50835-1 |
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]
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- ^ "So Long, See You Tomorrow, Part One". The New Yorker. October 1, 1979. pp. 34–102. Retrieved 2015-05-10.
- ^ "So Long, See You Tomorrow, Part Two". The New Yorker. October 8, 1979. pp. 40–99. Retrieved 2015-05-10.
- ^ American Academy of Arts and Letters - Award Winners Archived 2015-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "National Book Awards – 1982". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
- ^ "Fiction". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
- ^ front cover of 1997 Harvill Press p/b edition
- ^ Patchett, Ann (24 June 2016). "The 75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years". Retrieved 2016-06-27.
- ^ Burkhardt, Barbara (1994). William Maxwell: A selected critical biography (Ph.D.). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. hdl:2142/23720.