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The critic Morris Dickstein has said that John Williams’s Stoner “is something much rarer than a great novel – it is a perfect novel,” and in the last decade this austere and deeply moving tale of a Midwestern college professor has been embraced by readers all over the world. Here, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Stoner, NYRB Classics offers a special hardback edition of the book that also includes a previously unpublished correspondence between John Williams and his agent about its writing and publication.
Stoner: 50th Anniversary Edition (New York Review Books Classics), by John Williams - Amazon Sales Rank: #226655 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-03
- Released on: 2015-11-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.80" h x .90" w x 5.50" l, 1.25 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 336 pages
Stoner: 50th Anniversary Edition (New York Review Books Classics), by John Williams Review “A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life…I’m amazed a novel this good escaped general attention for so long.” —Ian McEwan“One of the great unheralded 20th-century American novels …Almost perfect.” —Bret Easton Ellis“Stoner is a novel of an ordinary life, an examination of a quiet tragedy, the work of a great but little-known writer.” —Ruth Rendell“A beautiful and moving novel, as sweeping, intimate, and mysterious as life itself.” —Geoff Dyer“I have read few novels as deep and as clear as Stoner. It deserves to be called a quiet classic of American literature.” —Chad Harbach“The most beautiful book in the world.” —Emma Straub"A poignant campus novel from the mid-'60s—an unjustly neglected gem." —Nick Hornby, People“The book begins boldly with a mention of Stoner’s death, and a nod to his profound averageness: ‘Few students remembered him with any sharpness after they had taken his courses.’ By the end, though, Williams has made Stoner’s disappointing life into such a deep and honest portrait, so unsoftened and unromanticized, that it’s quietly breathtaking.”—The Boston Globe “Williams’ descriptions of the experience of reading both elucidate and evince the pleasures of literary language; the ‘minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words’ in which Stoner finds joy are re-enacted in Williams’ own perfect fusion of words.”—n+1 “Stoner, by John Williams, is a slim novel, and not a particularly joyous one. But it is so quietly beautiful and moving, so precisely constructed, that you want to read it in one sitting and enjoy being in it, altered somehow, as if you have been allowed to wear an exquisitely tailored garment that you don’t want to take off.”—The Globe and Mail “One of the great forgotten novels of the past century. I have bought at least 50 copies of it in the past few years, using it as a gift for friends...The book is so beautifully paced and cadenced that it deserves the status of classic.”—Colum McCann, Top 10 Novels, The Guardian “Stoner is undeniably a great book, but I can also understand why it isn’t a sentimental favorite in its native land. You could almost describe it as an anti-Gatsby...Part of Stoner’s greatness is that it sees life whole and as it is, without delusion yet without despair...The novel embodies the very virtues it exalts, the same virtues that probably relegate it, like its titular hero, to its perpetual place in the shade. But the book, like professor William Stoner, isn’t out to win popularity contests. It endures, illumined from within.”—Tim Kreider, The New Yorker “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’ve ever come across.”—Tom Hanks, Time “Stoner is written in the most plainspoken of styles...Its hero is an obscure academic who endures a series of personal and professional agonies. Yet 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, Tin House “The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It’s perhaps the best book I’ve read in years.”—Stephen Elliott, The Believer “John Williams’s Stoner is something rarer than a great novel—it is a perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving, that it takes your breath away.”—The New York Times Book Review “Williams didn’t write much compared with some novelists, but everything he did was exceedingly fine...it’s a shame that he’s not more often read today...But it’s great that at least two of his novels [Stoner, Butcher’s Crossing] have found their way back into print.”—The Denver Post “A masterly portrait of a truly virtuous and dedicated man.”—The New Yorker “Why isn’t this book famous...Very few novels in English, or literary productions of any kind, have come anywhere near its level for human wisdom or as a work of art.”—C. P. Snow “Serious, beautiful and affecting, what makes Stoner so impressive is the contained intensity the author and character share.”—Irving Howe, The New Republic “A quiet but resonant achievement.”—The Times Literary Supplement “Perhaps the greatest example of minimalism I’ve ever read...Stoner is a story of great hope for the writer who cares about her work.”—Stephen Elliott “Stoner by John Williams, contains what is no doubt my favorite literary romance of all time. William Stoner is well into his 40s, and mired in an unhappy marriage, when he meets Katherine, another shy professor of literature. The affair that ensues is described with a beauty so fierce that it takes my breath away each time I read it. The chapters devoted to this romance are both terribly sexy and profoundly wise.”—The Christian Science Monitor
About the Author 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 managed to write a draft of his first novel while there. Once home, Williams found a 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.He 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, editing an anthology of English Renaissance poetry and publishing two volumes of his own poems, as well as three novels, Butcher’s Crossing, Stoner, and the National Book Award–winning Augustus (all published as NYRB Classics).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 short-listed 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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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. The Great American Novel By J. Lusk One of the best novels I have ever read. Captivating from the first page. I'm a slow reader, taking about 20-30 days for an average size novel; but I read this novel in 2.5 days. I just could not put it down.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Classic American Realistic fiction By Miriam C. Jacobs Williams's Stoner is old-school American Realism at its best, modern in presenting story without explanation, allowing the reader to interpret. The writing is clean, clear, and emotionally engaging. The narrative is linear, the voice consistent in its focus and level of omniscience. The title character, a particular man in a particular time and place. a person who succeeds by some measures and fails by others, whose excellence and integrity go unrecognized until past time it will do him any good, stuck for life in a loveless relationship (his wife is bi-polar, although the novel obviously - 1965 publication - does not know that word), his story is one of the human predicament.Apart from literary considerations, this book is also an argument for the institution of tenure. Early in his career, Stoner has a falling out with a colleague, Lomax, and when this fellow rises to power, becomes a department chair, Stoner is made a political victim and suffers deeply, in life-altering ways. As often happens in the real world, this falling out proceeds not from anything tangible, but from a misunderstanding. Lomax has a chip on his shoulder because of a physical deformity, a condition that no wise impairs Stoner's attitude. In fact, he likes and respects Lomax, but is unable to overcome his innate reserve well enough to demonstrate it.At a party, Lomax gets drunk and shares the pain of his youth, the taunting of other children and consequent distancing his handicap enforces. The next day, Lomax is embarrassed about this unburdening, and as people will do, blames the witness. When Lomax rises to the top, he persecutes Stoner by assigning him, semester after semester, year after year, a schedule of four freshman comp classes, widely separated on the weekly calendar to maximize inconvenience - in essence, torture. Later, when Stoner falls into a serious and meaningful relationship with a young fellow professor, Lomax goes after her, scapegoats her, threatening to ruin her career and personal reputation, and Stoner is forced to give it up, this connection.In both these situations, it is tenure that saves Stoner's job - a job that has become misery, affliction, that only the teaching and helping students partially rectify. Therefore, tenure does for Stoner exactly what it is intended to do - protects him from political change and personal vendetta.I was amused and somewhat salved to learn that freshman English students one hundred years ago were as empty of academic background, and as puzzled about why their professor was so excited, engaged, adamant about a subject that to them is of no importance, a requirement they simply have to get through, fake their way through, as first and second-year college English students are now. I had imagined that students 'in the day' were better motivated and better educated to begin with. Nay, not so, Gentle Reader.The fact that every new teaching post involves a term-long sales pitch is not only my problem, or a contemporary one, not a result of pop culture or decay, but an old, old fact of life, part of what you have to deal with if you want to teach English. Most students don't care for or about writing and literature, and must be convinced these things matter. Finding out that the problem is this old makes me feel better about it, and better about the world, too.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Probably the best book I'll read this year By Cat What a powerful read. Probably the best book I'll read this year.
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