They Came Like Swallows

They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell


ISBN
9781860468131
Published
Released
01 / 04 / 2001
Binding
Paperback
Pages
192

To eight-year-old Bunny Morison his mother is an angelic comforter in whose absence nothing seems quite real or alive. To his older brother, Robert, his mother is someone he must protect, especially since the deadly influenza epidemic of 1918 is ravaging their small Mid-western town. To James Morison, his wife Elizabeth is the centre of a life that would crumble all too suddenly were she to disappear.

Through the eyes of these three, Maxwell creates a portrait of an American family and the woman who is its emotional pillar. Deftly rendering the civilities and constraints of a vanished ear, 'They Came Like Swallows' measures the unvoiced currents of love and need that run through all our lives.
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