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The Folded Leaf

The Folded Leaf

by WilliamMaxwell (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 1999

    $3.44

  • Used

    Paperback 1999

    $3.44
Synopsis

The path to adulthood is littered with broken relationships. In the suburbs of 1920s Chicago two boys form an unlikely friendship. Spud Latham is slow at school but quick to fight and a natural athlete - Lymie Peters, thin, pigeon-chested and terrible at games, is devoted to him. As they graduate from school to college, tensions start to surface. It is Lymie who first meets Sally Forbes, but it is Spud she falls in love with. This signals the end of their friendship and the rift is almost more than Lymie can bear.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 18 Nov 1999
ISBN 10: 1860466966
ISBN 13: 9781860466960
Book Overview: Maxwell is the unsung hero of American literature. This is a beautifully observed and moving novel about growing up.

Author Bio
William Maxwell was born in Illinois in 1908. He was the author of a distinguished body of work: six novels, three short story collections, an autobiographical memoir and a collection of literary essays and reviews. A New Yorker editor for forty years, he helped to shape the prose and careers of John Updike, John Cheever, John O'Hara and Eudora Welty. So Long, See You Tomorrow won the American Book Award, and he received the PEN/Malamud Award. He died in New York in 2000.