Stoner
of John Williams, John McGahern (Contributor)
Description
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 scholarâs 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 âproperâ 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 Williamsâs 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.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 278 pages
- Publisher New York Review Books
- Publication Date 2006
- First Publication 10/28/65
- Language English
- ISBN 9781590171998
- Edition NYRB Classics, US / CAN Edition
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Missouri (United States)', 'Columbia, Missouri (United States)']
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