Too Far to Go
John Updike
Too Far to Go by John Updike is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
Read Time: ~2.3 hr
So Long, See You Tomorrow
by William Maxwell (1980)
About this book
On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers - one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy - has been shattered. Fifty years later, one of those boys - now a grown man - tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who had the misfortune of being the son of Wilson's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that Maxwell's narrator can only guess at.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraLate 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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