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    <body><![CDATA[As a reader I enjoy the elevation of the everyday, and I have to say that Mr. Maxwell does a wonderful job in taking something quite ordinary, a family’s relationship with their mother, and turns it into pure art. One of the most stimulating aspects of this book is Maxwell’s use of point of view...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51012504">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(copied review) William Maxwell, longtime fiction editor for the New Yorker, had a prolific writing career that spanned seven decades. His writing is spare and elegant, his characters genuine. This short (150 pages) novel deals with a family coping with the death of the mother. Each of the three cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78841153">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This 1937 novel is a short, sad story of a family's arc from bliss to crisis.  The book's three parts are told in succession from the vantage points of the Morison family's three males: eight-year-old Bunny, his older brother Robert, and the boys' father James.  Each loves Elizabeth Morison for her ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2211668">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A story full of distince characters who feel deeply but for the most part act with great restraint.  Maxwell is so good at presenting these characters tenderly but also with great restraint.  Love the quiet, midwest, small town setting which he captures perfectly.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A spare, beautiful portrait of an American family on the verge of transformation, this was a difficult but enjoyable novel to read during the H1N1 (swine flu) 'scare.'  Despite the early-20th century setting, I had a couple of 'the more things change, the more they stay the same' chuckles.  (The fam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53425213">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A quiet, beautifully written family portrait; not a page turner though.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I heard an interview with Maxwell's daughters (his books are being re-printed this year); and they commented on how Maxwell was a brilliant writer, editor, professor, but often an absent and distant father.  This is my first Maxwell book (I will read more!) - his sense of both the fragility and stre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31690485">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While not as wonderful as Time Will Darken It, They Came Like Swallows should not be missed. A boy and his father tell of the love of the woman who anchors their lives, and whose death they are unable to overcome. As so often is the case, the core of a family is not necessariy apparent until it is r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30992598">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is really very little I can add to the other reviews by others. <br/><br/>Maxwell's prose is so terse, clear, and uncluttered, in a word, pristine. Its tone and timbre capture and reflect mid-20th century America, a time and place that now exist in memory. In his words I hear my parents and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33829682">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is incredibly sad, but it is beautifully written.It is about a family who loses their wife and mother to the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918.  It is one of Maxwell's early novels, the first in which he wrote about his mother's death, which he wrote off and on about throughout his career, endi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36816430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book first for a independent project my senior year of highschool, and was blown away by its beauty and bleakness and hope - but even more by how thoroughly those things intertwine. <br/><br/>When I re-read it last year, I was struck more specifically by the family dynamic, and how Max...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1498722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really 4.5 stars.  Beautifully written book about a comfortably-off family in a southern Illinois town during the flu epidemic of 1918.  The book is divided in three parts, as the two children, Bunny and Robert, and then the father relate the story.  It's heartbreaking.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This short novella is set just after World War I in a small town in Illinois and is very touching. Without giving too much away, one of the big factors in the book is that the mother is expecting her third child, another is the flu epidemic sweeping the country.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the most spectacularly beautiful books I have ever read.  The writing is clean and honest.  Listen to his &quot;Fresh Air&quot; interview from several years ago to get the background to this story-- truely fascinated.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maxwell not only writes beautifully but has a hypnotic, slightly disquieting narrative voice that slowly draws you until you suddenly find that you care so very deeply about the characters. An excellent fast read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This odd story is unremarkably odd. It wasn't bad, just bland. Lacking in the plot department this story's strength is in the author's closeness to the subject--a boy's attachment to his mother.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The husband and two sons depend on one woman to hold them and everything together.  This story is told from the perspective of each.  Wonderful story; straightforward, fine writing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[clear, measured, well-paced clean prose. after this i would read any of his books, and i will probably read them all.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[wonderful writing that tells the story of an affluent family during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1919.]]></body>
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