They came like swallows
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: They came like swallows
Classmark: Manuscripts MS 606/J19 (Leeds Russian Archive)
Publisher: Brilliance Publishing
Publication city: [Grand Haven, Michigan]
Date(s): [2019]
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 audio disc
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/658271
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003424769705181
Collection group(s): Leeds Russian Archive
Description
MP3 Audio CD. Plays on MP3-CD enabled players or transfers to portable devices.
Originally published in print: New York; London: Harper, 1937.
Performed by Kaleo Griffith.
To eight-year old Bunny Morison, his mother is an angelic comforter in whose absence nothing is 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 Midwestern town. To James Morison, his wife, Elizabeth, is the center of a life that would disintegrate all too suddenly were she to disappear. Through the eyes of these characters, William Maxwell creates a sensitive portrait of an American family and of the complex woman who is its emotional pillar. Beautifully observed, deftly rendering the civilities and constraints of a vanished era, They Came Like Swallows measures the subterranean currents of love and need that run through all our lives. The result confirms Maxwell's reputation as one of the finest writers we have.
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