
The Chateau
William Maxwell(Author)
Vintage Classics (Publisher)
Published on 1. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-09-957362-3 (ISBN)
Description
It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for.
Reviews / Votes
Not just a book of the year but now one of my desert island books. -- Adrian Turpin * Herald Scotland * Delicious and dead-on... All the embarrassments and gratifications of European travel are preserved in the amber of Maxwell's much pondered, seemingly casual prose. * New Yorker * As the voices of Austen, Turgenev and Tolstoy have survived, so will Maxwell's. There aren't many truly great writers among us. William Maxwell is one of them * The Times * It's hard not to see it as a work of genius * Times Literary Supplement * He combines educated intelligent and instinctive apprehension of human complexity in a way that would have earned Henry James' approval. William Maxwell is the very model of what a novelist should be * Independent on Sunday * Perennially endearing * Spectator * Reading The Chateau is like meeting a very old friend with whom the conversation is always spontaneous, intimate, restorative and unpredictable Surprising on every page... I ended The Chateau feeling very sad that it was over -- Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life His gentle urbanity is a joy * Sunday Telegraph * Reading 'The Chateau' is like meeting a very old friend with whom the conversation is always spontaneous, intimate, restorative and unpredictable... Maxwell is that rare thing, a kind writer... But what has made him so influential is his habit of interspersing his subtle accounts of character with sharp observations about human nature. * Independent *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
298 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-957362-3 (9780099573623)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions


William Maxwell
The Chateau
Two lovers embark on a soul-stirring journey into the heart of postwar France.
E-Book
12/2010
1st Edition
Vintage Digital
€8.99
Available for download
Person
William Maxwell was born in Illinois in 1908. 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 forty years, he helped to shape the prose and careers of John Updike, John Cheever, John O'Hara and Eudora Welty. So Long, See You Tomorrow won the American Book Award, and he received the PEN/Malamud Award. He died in New York in 2000.