Friday, February 15, 2019

Ancestors - William Maxwell

Sub-title: A Family History

Not really an auto-biography, more of a personal genealogy augmented with imagination and perfect prose, a great example of how to tell the story of a family.  Maxwell reminisces about how his ancestors experienced the recorded evidence of their lives and documents for posterity their stories, augmented with his embellishment of time and place.  My favorite read so far this year.

Published:  1971  Read: February 2019  Genre: auto-biography


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