5/30/2023 0 Comments So long see you tomorrow review![]() ![]() As recounted by John Barry in “ The Great Influenza ,” the US government had discounted the seriousness of the outbreak throughout 1918. They also have little clue what is coming at them. It’s late summer 1918, and the Morisons, like the rest of America, have their own concerns and “real” news, like the war, to worry about. She asks her husband to read about something else. ![]() Bunny’s mother, Elizabeth, is no more interested than her youngest son in this talk about far-off things. He does not know what an epidemic is, but he knows it’s not the kind of thing you want around you. In his mind, he saw it, unpleasantly shaped and rather like a bed pan.” Bunny is Maxwell’s stand-in in this autobiographical novel, and he shares his creator’s appreciation of the talismanic power of certain words and phrases. “Is it something new? Does it come from Spain?” Here’s what Maxwell writes about the moment: “The word epidemic was new to Bunny. ![]() His father, James, is reading the headlines out loud for all to hear. The reader knows, however, that this is the gun that is going to go off.Įight-year-old Bunny Morison is deep in his own thoughts when he’s arrested by the sound of a word. When the Spanish Influenza comes on stage in William Maxwell’s 1937 novel They Came Like Swallows, the family at the heart of the book pays it little attention. ![]()
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