Time Will Darken It

by William Maxwell

Overview

Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the process, unwittingly jeopardizes his marriage, career, and place in the community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679772583
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/04/1997
Series:	Vintage International , #1
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	1,161,722
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.45(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

William Maxwell was born in 1908, in Lincoln, Illinois. When he was fourteen his family moved to Chicago and he continues his education there and at the University of Illinois.  After a year of graduate work at Harvard he went back to Urbana and taught freshman composition, and then turned to writing.  He has published six novels, three collections of literary essays and reviews, and a book for children.  For forty years he was a fiction editor at The New Yorker. From 1969 to 1972 he was president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters,  He received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award Medal and, for So Long, See You Tomorrow,  the American Book Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2000.

What People are Saying About This

Eudora Welty

Mr. Maxwell's public is well aware that his sensitive prose is the good and careful tool of an artist who is always doing exactly what he needs to do. The careful, meditative examination of unfolding relationships among people of several ages, all interesting, as Mr. Maxwell's expected integrity, and the stories quiet and accumulating power, a dark and disturbing beauty that has some of its roots, at least, in fine restraint.