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About the Book

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. Yet as the years pass, William 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' 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.

About the Author :
John Williams (1922-1994) was an editor, professor, and author of several works, including two volumes of poetry and three novels, Butcher's Crossing, Stoner, and the National Book Award-winning Augustus. He was born in Texas and received his PhD from the University of Missouri in the early 1950s, where he also was a professor. In 1955 he became the director of the University of Denver's creative writing program, where he became the editor of the University of Denver Quarterly. Robin Field is the AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator of numerous audiobooks, as well as an award-winning actor, singer, writer, and lyricist whose career has spanned six decades. He has starred on and off Broadway, headlined at Carnegie Hall, authored numerous musical reviews, and hosted or performed on a number of television and radio programs over the years.

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"An exquisite study...[an] unsparing portrait of failed marriage." -- "Los Angeles Times " "Beautifully paced and cadenced." -- "The Guardian (London)" "It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But it's one of the most fascinating things that you'll ever come across." -- "Time" "My favorite literary romance of all time...described with a beauty so fierce that it takes my breath away each time I read it." -- "Christian Science Monitor" "Robin Field fully inhabits Stoner's character...Stoner is a small miracle of a novel that is enhanced by a narrator who is a perfect match. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award." -- "AudioFile" "Serious, beautiful and affecting, what makes Stoner so impressive is the contained intensity the author and character share." -- "New Republic" "So quietly beautiful and moving, so precisely constructed, that you want to read it in one sitting and enjoy being in it." -- "Globe and Mail (Toronto)" "The novel is utterly riveting, and for one simple reason: because the author, John Williams, treats his characters with such tender and ruthless honesty that we cannot help but love them." -- "Steve Almond, author of (Not That You Asked)" "A masterly portrait of a truly virtuous and dedicated man." -- "New Yorker"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781441748287
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Width: 165 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1441748288
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jun 2010
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Height: 157 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 295 gr


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