EAN: 9781590171998

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

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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