Stoner, English edition - Introduction by John McGahern
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| Verlag | New York Review Books |
| Auflage | 2006 |
| Seiten | 288 |
| Format | 20,5 cm |
| Gewicht | 312 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 1590171993 |
| EAN | 9781590171998 |
| Bestell-Nr | 59017199UA |
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 e merges 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.
