Stoner: 50th Anniversary Edition

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned...
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Author: John Williams
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Language: English
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Stoner: 50th Anniversary Edition by Williams, John

Stoner: 50th Anniversary Edition

€39,09

Stoner: 50th Anniversary Edition

€39,09
Author: John Williams
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe.

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a "proper" family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.

John Williams's luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.



Author: John Williams
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 07/30/2019
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781681374574

About the Author
John Williams (1922¬-1994) was born and raised in northeast Texas. After serving in the war, he enrolled at the University of Denver, where he received both his B.A. and M.A. and returned as an instructor in 1954. Williams taught creative writing program at the University of Denver until retiring in 1985. He published two volumes of poetry and three novels, Butcher's Crossing, Stoner, and the National Book Award-winning Augustus, all of which are available from NYRB Classics.

John McGahern (1934-2006) was one of the most acclaimed Irish writers of his generation. His work, including
six novels and four collections of short stories, often centered on the Irish predicament, both political and temperamental. Amongst Women, his best-known book, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a popular miniseries. His last book, the memoir All Will Be Well, was published shortly before his death.

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