{"product_id":"9780393057713-secondhand-a-william-maxwell-portrait-memories-and-appreciations","title":"A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations","description":"William Maxwell, who died in July 2000, was revered as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and a longtime fiction editor at  The New Yorker . Now writers who knew Maxwell and were inspired by him-both the man and his work-offer intimate essays, most specifically written for this volume, that \"\"bring him back to life, right there in front of us.    Alec Wilkinson writes of Maxwell as mentor; Edward Hirsch remembers him in old age; Charles Baxter illuminates the magnificent novel  So Long, See You Tomorrow ; Ben Cheever recalls Maxwell and his own father; Donna Tartt vividly describes Maxwell's kindness to herself as a first novelist; and Michael Collier admires him as a supreme literary correspondent. Other appreciations include insightful pieces by Alice Munro, Anthony Hecht, a poem by John Updike, and a brief tribute from Paula Fox. Ending this splendid collection is Maxwell himself, in the unpublished speech The Writer as Illusionist. Three generations of writers celebrate a master whose life and work continue to reverberate in contemporary letters.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48869436031195,"sku":"9780393057713-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/70ba293c-acd4-494c-b5f7-0e2875cfb184.jpg?v=1781282517","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780393057713-secondhand-a-william-maxwell-portrait-memories-and-appreciations","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}