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Winner of the National Book Award and the William Dean Howells Medal Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction With a new introduction by Ann Patchett "A small, perfect novel." ―Washington Post Book World In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois.
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