A review by fatamo
The Chateau by William Maxwell

4.0

I really thought this was an excellently written book, and wonder if some of it might be autobiographical; I don't know anything about the author other than that he was an editor also, but he writes with a certain nostalgia that comes when you can tell an author is giving an account that is more personal than fictional. In any case, I made the executive decision to NOT read part 2, which I think is just unnecessary. I feel like Part 2: "Some Explanations" is something that all editors dream of putting in books they are editing, in response to readers who have complaints about the structure, style or characters of the story. I have no interest in reading the scratching of an editor's itch and so preferred to leave the characters as they were exactly in Part 1; young, full of mystery, and in love with France.