Stoner

John Williams was born on August 29, 1922 in Clarksville, Texas. He served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India. The Swallow Press published his first novel, Nothing But the Night, in 1948, as well as his first book of poems, The Broken Landscape, in 1949. Macmillan published Williams' second novel, Butcher's Crossing, in 1960. After recieving his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Denver, and his Ph.D from the University of Missouri, Williams returned in 1954 to the University of Denver where he taught literature and the craft of writing for thirty years. In 1963 Williams received a fellowship to study at Oxford University where where he received a Rockefeller grant enabling him to travel and research in Italy for his last novel, Augustus, published in 1972. John Williams died in Arkansas on March 4, 1994.

出版者:Vintage Classics

作者:John Williams

页数:305

出版时间:2012-7-5

价格:GBP 8.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780099561545

图书标签:英文原版小说JohnWilliams美国文学美国外国文学fiction文学

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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.

读后感

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用户评价

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能把一个普通人的生活写得这么生动而且真实，不夸张不造作不离奇，但同时又能引人入胜，这非常难得。

我知道年龄不太对 但我读的时候一直脑补stoner是李思涯lomax是甘阳 最后晚宴上stoner没给lomax一巴掌让我很失望

我想，好的小說是每位讀者都能從主人公身上找到自己的影子。《斯通納》就是這樣的小說，主人公斯通納就是那位像鏡子一般幫助讀者照見自我的人。他是一個普通得不能再普通的男人，沒有俗世意義上的功成名就，卻終其一生都不曾放棄對理想的追求和對信念的堅守。有時候，平凡與偉大之間，並無深淵巨壑。

泪点：Katherine后来去了一个女校教书，博士论文出了书，谨致W.S.。