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New York, New York, U.S.A. 2006 Trade Paperback New in Pictorial Cover jacket Textbook. 8vo-over 7?"-9?" tall. Brand new. 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. Read more Show Less

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Overview

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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This reprint of Williams's remarkable 1965 novel offers a window on early 20th century higher education in addition to its rich characterizations and seamless prose. Sent by his hard-scrabble farmer father to the University of Missouri to study agriculture, William Stoner is sidetracked by an obsessive love of literature and stimulated by a curmudgeonly old professor, Archer Sloane. Sloane helps Stoner avoid service in WWI, and Stoner eventually becomes an assistant professor. He then meets and marries a St. Louis beauty, Edith, who quickly subjugates her contemplative, passive husband. As decades pass, Stoner entrenches himself deep into the life of the mind, developing into a master teacher but never finding solace in the outside world. Stoner's single joy is Grace, their daughter, whom Edith appropriates as a weapon in her very personal war against Stoner's quest for inner peace. Williams (1922-1994) won the NBA for Augustus (1973), and NYRB will republish his western, Butch's Crossing next year. Williams's prose flows in a smooth, efficient current that demands contemplation. (July) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781590171998
  • Publisher: New York Review Books
  • Publication date: 6/20/2006
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 97,200
  • Series: New York Review Books Classics Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.03 (w) x 8.01 (h) x 0.69 (d)

Meet the Author

John Williams

John Williams (1922-1994) was born and raised in northeast Texas. Despite a talent for writing and acting, Williams flunked out of a local junior college after his first year. He reluctantly joined the war effort, enlisting in the Army Air Corps, and managing to write a draft of his first novel while there. Once home, Williams found a small publisher for the novel and enrolled at the University of Denver, where he was eventually to receive both his B.A. and M.A., and where he was to return as an instructor in 1954. Williams remained on the staff of the creative writing program at the University of Denver until his retirement in 1985. During these years, he was an active guest lecturer and writer, publishing two volumes of poetry and three novels, Butcher’s Crossing, Stoner, and the National Book Award–winning Augustus.

John McGahern (1934-2006) was one of the most acclaimed Irish writers of his generation. His work, including six novels and four collections of short stories, often centered on the Irish predicament, both political and temperamental. Amongst Women, his best-known book, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a popular miniseries. His last book, the memoir All Will Be Well, was published shortly before his death.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 17, 2008

    Best Work of Fiction I've Read in a Long Time

    This is a book that should be on the book lists for most high school and college literature programs. Stoner is great literature and an instructive life lesson on how one man stoically accepts and overcomes what life has thrown at him. Stoner is the 'Job' of the early 20th century. A very enjoyable and easy read...

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  • Posted February 3, 2011

    captivating, great literature

    Author John Williams was asked who would want to read the sad story of a University of Missouri English Literature Professor during the early to mid 1900's? SURPRISE...many many readers! It's a captivating story. IT was selected as our Book Club read and what a gem. The story of this Missouri man, his wife, his daughter and all the connections he has to his students and teaching job will quickly wrap you into his world. William Stoner is like an 'everyman' of those times. His wife is an example of the shallow, mean spirited empty life of a housewife of those times. The conflict Stoner has with his Dean and other Professors could easily have happened. They story is believeable, enjoyable and you just get sucked in to wanting to learn more about the pathetic life of Stoner.

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  • Posted November 17, 2010

    Quietly superb -- haunting, luminous and oddly hopeful

    After finishing this book I was amazed that I'd never heard of Williams before NYRB's re-discovery. For me, he proves to be a rare prose master just on the strength of this book (he wrote others but I haven't yet read them). The prose isn't showy, but is pitch-perfect in its alignment with its protagonist. The reading experience becomes exhilarating largely because of the precision of the prose -- which is perhaps even more remarkable, in my opinion, than Williams's darkly wonderful contemporary Richard Yates. Williams manages to impart a sense of hope to what could have easily come off as a lonely, even desolate life.

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  • Posted March 16, 2010

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    This is undoubtedly a classic

    This book has no extra words. The scenes are drawn with a sensitivity and skill that made me squirm with remembered anguish. The disquiet we feel when Stoner's father stares long and hard at Stoner's financée and makes an assessment, the brutal and pointless faculty fights in college departments, the uncertainty and unreasonable joy one feels before one's love is declared--these things so precisely described are authentic truths we can all recognize. Tightly written, and polished reverently, Williams creates a fictional world that feels so real we ache with despair. It is a primer for writers, and a lesson for readers. It deserves to be read widely.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 3, 2009

    the perfect novel

    William Stoner, the protagonist, will remain in the imagination of the reader long after the final page has been turned: this man's arduous life is saved by his "love affair" with the English language and the result is 288 pages of delicious prose.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 20, 2002

    Stoner is a heart-rending read

    I was sucked into 'Stoner' within the first few sentences. The characters are believable and their situations -- though heart-rending -- are presented with such skill, such beautiful effortless prose, that I experienced powerful emotional reactions, which for me indicates a great book. I felt a strong connection with Stoner -- there's much of him inside of me. I bought copies for all of my friends.

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  • Posted April 30, 2011

    You must read this book

    This is a wonderful character study and a book you will not want to put down. The writing is superb as is the story. I plan to read it again. John William's other two books are not as compelling but still wonderful books.

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