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by William Maxwell
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Beamis12
Beamis12 rated it 11 years ago
Bunny is eight years old in the late 1930's, the war has ended and he and his family live in a small Midwestern town, Bunny is our narrator for the first part of this novel. This is not really a coming of age novel, though it does include two young children. The Spanish Flu is rearing its ugly head ...
Books etc.
Books etc. rated it 13 years ago
It has a completely different feeling from the short story but still is a work of a master.
Will's Reading List
Will's Reading List rated it 18 years ago
This 1937 novel is a short, sad story of a family's arc from bliss to crisis. The book's three parts are told in succession from the vantage points of the Morison family's three males: eight-year-old Bunny, his older brother Robert, and the boys' father James. Each loves Elizabeth Morison for her al...
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