Stoner

Williams John ; Gavalda Anna
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EAN : 9782842636449

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 © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Nombre de pages 380
Date de parution 28/08/2011
Poids 418g
Largeur 142mm
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EAN 9782842636449
Titre Stoner
Auteur Williams John ; Gavalda Anna
Editeur LE DILETTANTE
Largeur 142
Poids 418
Date de parution 20110828
Nombre de pages 380,00 €

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