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They Came like Swallows

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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • "They came like swallows"
  • "They came like swallows"@it
  • "They came like swallows ; So long, see you tomorrow"@he

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  • "First published in 1937, They Came Like Swallows was William Maxwell's second novel. It tells of an ordinary American family overtaken by the devastating epidemic of the Spanish influenza of 1918. The book begins on the day before the armistice in a small midwestern town, and the events are seen from the perspective, in turn, of eight-year-old Peter Morison - called Bunny; of his older brother, Robert; and of their father. They are witnesses to a domestic tragedy that is written with beauty and a quite magnificent tenderness."
  • "This novel creates a sensitive portrait of an American family and of the complex woman who is its emotional pillar. Rendering the civilities and constraints of a vanished era, it measures the currents of love and need that run through all our lives."
  • "L'histoire de Bunny, huit ans, et de sa famille qui va être touchée en 1918, à la veille de l'armistice, par l'épidémie de grippe espagnole qui envahit l'Amérique."
  • "Flu epidemic of 1918 overtakes a midwestern family."
  • "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. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "History"
  • "Translations"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
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  • "Roman américain"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "They Came like Swallows"@en
  • "Sie kamen wie die Schwalben : Roman"
  • "They came like swallows"@en
  • "They came like swallows"
  • "Ki-senuniyot hem baʼu : Heyeh shalom, le-hitraʼot maḥar"
  • "They came like swallows. [Slight revisions have been made by the author]"
  • "De eerste zwaluw : roman"
  • "Sie kamen wie die Schwalben : roman"
  • "Come un volo di rondini"
  • "Come un volo di rondini"@it
  • "Comme un vol d'hirondelles"
  • "כסנוניות הם באו / היה שלום, להתראות מחר"
  • "Vinieron como golondrinas"
  • "Vinieron como golondrinas"@es
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  • "כסנוניות הם באו ; היה שלום, להתראות מחר"
  • "Come un vol d'hirondelles"
  • "Van venir com orenetes"
  • "Van venir com orenetes"@ca
  • "Llegaron como las golondrinas"
  • "Llegaron como las golondrinas"@es

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