The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales: Selected and Introduced by Aimee Bender

In these tales, with one foot firmly planted in the present, Maxwell brings a certain sophisticated urbanity to the oral traditions of the fable and fairy tale. "The total effect is of something midway between the Brothers Grimm and Kafka, with perhaps a touch of Zen." (NYRB April 1966) While modern enough in locale and context, they are as old as humanity itself in what concerns them. And always that voice, the age old voice of the storyteller, the eternal magic of the speaking human voice. Such simplicity takes true artistry and Maxwell has that in spades.

Author: William Maxwell
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 05/17/2016
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781940436326

About the Author
William Keepers Maxwell Jr. was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. He served as a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975.