![]() ![]() as the events they relate cannot be contained in a single span. ![]() The book then divides into several chapters: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and so on, with the last couple of days further broken into a few more chapters - Friday Tea, Friday Dinner, etc. An omniscient narrator tells of a terrible train wreck and of a brave and selfless, yet modest and unassuming, hero who saves many lives. Hilton presents his story in a most intriguing way: he begins after it has (mostly) ended. Rather, it’s what tragically does not happen.īut you know that going in: the book’s title tells you as much. But it isn’t so much what happens that’s the wistful charm of the book. James Hilton (1900-1954), circa 1940 (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)Īnd Now Good-bye (1931) is a quietly heartbreaking story, anticipating the tone, features, and arc that appear in James Hilton’s better known works, such as Lost Horizon and Goodbye Mr. ![]()
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