![]() This devotion to understanding what could and could not be done is an exquisite portrayal of what decency is, one that shows how difficult it is to be moral in an imperfect and violent world. But the real drama, the heartbreaking quality of this book, is the lifelong attempt by the narrator to come to terms with his desire to offer solace to Cletus and his sense that he was unable to do so. The murder, set in the Midwest in the early part of the century, is perfectly explored as the result of a passionate, compelling affair between the wife of a farmer and her neighbor. ![]() So Long, See You Tomorrow shows how a small-town murder affects 2 boys in their early teens: the narrator and his friend Cletus, the son of the murdered man. ![]() Maxwell was famous as a fiction editor of the New Yorker, but he was also one of the finest novelists of the 20th century. ![]()
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