So Long, See You Tomorrow Av William Maxwell

<p><b>Discover this extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of America''s greatest novelists.</b><br><br>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.<br><br> <b>**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**</b></p>