{"product_id":"the-chateau-9780679761563","title":"The Chateau","description":"It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Maxwell\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1908 in Lincoln, Illinois. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and after earning a master's at Harvard, returned there to teach freshman composition before turning to writing. He published six novels, three collections of short fiction, an autobiographical memoir, a collection of literary essays and reviews, and a book for children. For 40 years, he was a fiction editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eSo Long, See You Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e, the American Book Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2000.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460698935570,"sku":"9780679761563","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6d4da871-1ed9-4d0a-bb3f-5832b44aab93.jpg?v=1730045492","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-chateau-9780679761563","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}