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.
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(原载《财新周刊》,有改动) 约翰·杜尔在为IBM工作了36年后,厌倦了为赚钱奔波,决定退休,和妻子在纽约上东区开了家小书店。上东区寸土寸金,一年光地租就要六位数,普通书籍销售自然很难维持营生。于是杜尔找了些不常见的旧版书来销售,其中有一本绝版书杜尔很喜欢,每次...
评分 评分 评分2015年5月,英美三家电影制作公司,在法国戛纳电影节联合宣布启动一本小说的电影改编计划。它们分别是:出品奥斯卡获奖电影《爆裂鼓手》的布鲁姆制片公司(Blumhouse Productions),出品《007:幽灵党》的科恩传媒(Cohen Media Group)和戛纳电影节封后之作《卡罗尔》的制片...
评分斯通纳是农家之子,性格木讷,甚至有点怯懦。本来父母给他安排的未来是到大学读完农业后回家打理农庄。但是,一门英语选修课彻底改变了他。在课堂上,他听到了莎士比亚隔着三百年对他的召唤。于是,他改变了专业,背弃了父母的规划,并在几年后成为了一名大学英语教师。 但是...
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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.
泪点:Katherine后来去了一个女校教书,博士论文出了书,谨致W.S.。
评分(Reminds me of Russell's) Knowledge & Love & (pity for) human suffering. Still think he should have done more for his daughter.
评分近来大热的一本旧书 确实带着过去年代的克制和优美。一生不过某些片断而已 然后就过去了。
评分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。
评分看荒野侦探觉得杨向荣是一位很靠谱的译者 然而斯通纳里边出现的很多低级错误是高中生都不会犯的 还是要吹一下中文版的封面设计 六本文学著作摘出六个字母拼成Stoner 每次只要一看见就各种共鸣(你共鸣个JB)+情绪翻涌 而且书壳竟然有六种颜色 忍不住有种再买五本的冲动 可是认清现实吧 你不过是个穷鬼
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