Stoner - John Williams

Stoner

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	Publisher :	Blackstone Audio Inc
	Author :	John Williams
	Narrator :	Robin Field

	Length :	9 hours 47 minutes (Unabridged)

Download Price :		$19.99

Format :		Downloadable MP3

World English

© 2010 Blackstone Audio Inc

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“A perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving, it takes your breath away.”—Morris Dickstein, New York Times Book Review “A masterly portrait of a truly virtuous and dedicated man.”—New Yorker “An exquisite study, bleak as Hopper, of a hopelessly honest academic at a meretricious Midwestern university. I had not known…that the kind of unsparing portrait of failed marriage shown in Stoner existed before John Cheever.”— Los Angeles Times 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, far 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. John Williams (1922-1994), poet and novelist, was born in Texas and received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. In 1955 he became the director of the University of Denver’s creative writing program where he edited the University of Denver Quarterly. He remained at Denver until his retirement in 1986. He was a co-winner of the 1973 National Book Award for Fiction for the novel Augustus.

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