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Stoner: A special gift edition
de John Williams
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- Nuevo
- ISBN 10
- 1784879142
- ISBN 13
- 9781784879143
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Hardback. New. <p><b>A beautiful hardback edition of the greatest rediscovered classic of recent years</b><br /><br />William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death, his colleagues remember him rarely.<br /><br />Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value - of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life.<br /><br /><b>'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwan</b><br /><br /><b>'A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel' Nick Hornby</b><br /><br /><b>'A terrific novel of echoing sadness' Julian Barnes</b><br /><br /><b>VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful </b></p>
Sinopsis
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 Wel l, was published shortly before his death.
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- The Saint Bookstore
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- A9781784879143
- Título
- Stoner: A special gift edition
- Autor
- John Williams
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Cantidad disponible
- 3
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1784879142
- ISBN 13
- 9781784879143
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