William Stoner entered the University of Missouri as a freshman in the year 1910, at the age of nineteen.
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The critic Morris Dickstein has said that John Williams’s Stoner “is something much rarer than a great novel—it is a perfect novel,” and in the last decade this austere and deeply moving tale of a Midwestern college professor has been embraced by readers all over the world. Here, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Stoner, NYRB Classics offers a special hardback edition of the book that also includes a previously unpublished correspondence between John Williams and his agent about its writing and publication.
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Publish Date
2015
Publisher
New York Review Books,
New York Review of Books
Language
English
Pages
336
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Subjects
domestic fiction, psychological fiction, Literature, Fiction, Study and teaching, College teachers, Adultery, English teachers, Marital conflict, campus, academic, College teachers, fiction, Missouri, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, family life, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, psychological, Middle west, fiction, Littérature, Romans, nouvelles, Étude et enseignement, Professeurs d'anglais, Conflits conjugauxShowing 10 featured editions. View all 47 editions?
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Stoner
2015, New York Review Books, New York Review of Books
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- NYRB Classics 50th Anniversary Edition
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Stoner
2012, Vintage Books
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2006, New York Review Books
Trade Paperback
in English
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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, 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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