Description
Title: They Came Like Swallows
Author: William Maxwell
ISBN: 9780679772576
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1997
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 174
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : First published in 1937, They Came Like Swallows was William Maxwell’s second novel. It tells of an ordinary American family overtaken by the devastating epidemic of the Spanish influenza of 1918. The book begins on the day before the armistice in a small midwestern town, and the events are seen from the perspective, in turn, of eight-year-old Peter Morison – called Bunny; of his older brother, Robert; and of their father. They are witnesses to a domestic tragedy that is written with beauty and a quite magnificent tenderness.
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