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Stoner
John Williams
Stoner
John Williams
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.
288 pages
Médias | Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé) |
Validé | 20 juin 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9781590171998 |
Éditeurs | New York Review Books |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 227 × 153 × 19 mm · 314 g |
Langue et grammaire | English |
Contributeur | John McGahern |
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