by WilliamMaxwell (Author)
In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent's misery - is shattered. After the murder and upheavals that follow, the boys never speak again. Fifty years on, the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime's regret.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 05 Jul 2012
ISBN 10: 0099560933
ISBN 13: 9780099560937
Book Overview: An extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of American's greatest novelists