EAN: 9781590171998

JOHN WILLIAMS - GEBRAUCHT STONER (NEW YORK REVI...

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.

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