All the Days and Nights

Reviews / Votes

William Maxwell's tales, long and short, have the elusive ability to reveal us to ourselves -- Erica Wagner * The Times * However different their settings the sensibility remains constant. It is decorous, highly civilised and deeply thoughtful -- Anthony Quinn * Observer * All of them share the effect of a brilliant view - as though a window were opened on a contained and vivid scene...There is a rare clarity and economy here - along with that wise measured humanity -- Penelope Lively * Spectator * The stories are formidable...we know we are in the presence of a master craftsman * Sydney Morning Herald * Maxwell's triumph is to bring brightness and a seething, submerged emotion to an America long dead... he offers us scrupulously executed, moving landscapes of American's twentieth century, and they do not fade -- Claire Messud * Times Literary Supplement *