Stoner [electronic resource]
Williams, John2010
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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, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. Yet as the years pass, William 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' 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.
Main title:
Stoner [electronic resource] / John Williams
Author:
Williams, John, AuthorField, Robin, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, 2010
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
John Williams (1922–1994) was an editor, professor, and author of several works, including two volumes of poetry and three novels, Butcher's Crossing, Stoner, and the National Book Award–winning Augustus. He was born in Texas and received his PhD from the University of Missouri in the early 1950s, where he also was a professor. In 1955 he became the director of the University of Denver's creative writing program, where he became the editor of the University of Denver Quarterly.
ISBN:
9781481586436
Language:
English
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BRN:
2788325
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