So_Long,_See_You_Tomorrow_(novel)
So Long, See You Tomorrow (novel)
1979 novel by William Maxwell
So Long, See You Tomorrow is a novel by American author William Maxwell. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine in October 1979 in two parts.[1][2] It was published as a book the following year by Alfred A. Knopf.
It was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal,[3] and its first paperback edition won a 1982 National Book Award.[4][lower-alpha 2] It was a finalist for the 1981 Pulitzer Prize.[5] Michael Ondaatje described it as "one of the great books of our age".[6] In 2016, it was included in a Parade Magazine list of the "75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years".[7]
The novel is based on fact and has been described as an "autobiographical metafiction".[8]