So long, see you tomorrow

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction,  Fathers and sons in fiction,  Teenage boys,  Murder,  Illinois in fiction,  Teenage boys in fiction,  Fathers and sons,  Murder in fiction,  Friendship in fiction,  Friendship,  National Book Award Winner,  award:national_book_award=1982,  award:national_book_award=fiction,  Large type books,  Fiction, coming of age,  Fiction, family life,  Fathers and sons, fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  Illinois, fiction,  Fiction, family life, general

Places: Illinois