Stoner

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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• Autor: John William
• Wydawnictwo New York Review Books
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Rok wydania: 2006
• Ilość stron: 288
• Stan: nowy, pełnowartościowy produkt
• Model: 9781590171998
• ISBN: 9781590171998
• EAN: 9781590171998
• Wymiary: 20.3 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm