5/2/2023 0 Comments Love By William Maxwell Pdf![]() ![]() Maxwell’s quiet and gentle style seemed to me to be wrong for this story of adolescence and young manhood. I knew Maxwell’s literary style was one of nuance, understatement and subtlety, which is something I ordinarily prize in a writer, but in The Folded Leaf I found to my regret that these qualities had become so attenuated that they made the novel seem flat and bloodless. Well, unfortunately, despite my pleasant anticipation, I must confess that I found the novel itself disappointing. ![]() I also knew that it and other novels and stories by Maxwell have been elevated into the literary canon by their publication this year in the very prestigious Library of America series. I knew it was a coming-of-age story, one of my favorite genres of literature, and that it was set in the Midwest, where I, too, had spent my boyhood. In addition, The Folded Leaf, his best known and highly praised autobiographical novel, has long been on my list of books to be read. ![]() I have long admired William Maxwell and over the years have read many of his short stories in The New Yorker. I was pleasantly surprised when I was given the assignment of doing the critical paper on The Folded Leaf.
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