Time Will Darken It
  • Published: 3 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781860465543
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99

Time Will Darken It

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A visit from relatives sparks an implosion in the life of a good-natured family man

The decision to invite his Southern relatives to stay proves a fateful one for Austin King. By the time they leave, his reputation and his marriage have suffered irreparable damage. Against the perfectly-drawn background of small-town Illinois at the turn of the 20th century, Maxwell once again uncovers the seeds of potential tragedy at the heart of a happily-established family.
  • Published: 3 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781860465543
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

William Maxwell

William Maxwell (1908-2000) was born in Illinois. 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 40 years, he helped to shape the prose and careers of John Updike, John Cheever, John O'Hara, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Eudora Welty. His novel, So Long Tomorrow won the American Book Award, and in 1995 he received the PEN/Malamud Award.

Also by William Maxwell

The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales
The Element of Lavishness
The Folded Leaf
The Chateau
They Came Like Swallows
All the Days and Nights
So Long, See You Tomorrow
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Praise for Time Will Darken It

This is such a good novel that I'm still shaking thinking about it... A novel not to be recommended to people but to be pressed on them, urgently

Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

Truly magnificent...I implore you now, not to let it pass you by

Glasgow Herald

A novel written with sympathy and with restraint, and in a prose thatt is almost poetically direct and sure... If you do not read Time Will Darken It you will have missed something rare

San Francisco Chronicle

Here is a book that is as near perfection as it is possible for a novel to be

Boston Globe

He conjures depths of pain and regret in words of radiant simplicity

Observer

Maxwell's voice is one of the wisest in American fiction; it is as well, one of the kindest

John Updike

Every time I read this I discover something new

Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), Daily Mail