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The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel - John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life (Hardcover)
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The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel - John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life (Hardcover)
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When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of
thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet John
Williams's quietly powerful tale of a Midwestern college professor,
William Stoner, whose life becomes a parable of solitude and
anguish eventually found an admiring audience in America and
especially in Europe. The New York Times called Stoner "a perfect
novel," and a host of writers and critics, including Colum McCann,
Julian Barnes, Bret Easton Ellis, Ian McEwan, Emma Straub, Ruth
Rendell, C. P. Snow, and Irving Howe, praised its artistry. The New
Yorker deemed it "a masterly portrait of a truly virtuous and
dedicated man." The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel traces the life
of Stoner's author, John Williams. Acclaimed biographer Charles J.
Shields follows the whole arc of Williams's life, which in many
ways paralleled that of his titular character, from their shared
working-class backgrounds to their undistinguished careers in the
halls of academia. Shields vividly recounts Williams's development
as an author, whose other works include the novels Butcher's
Crossing and Augustus (for the latter, Williams shared the 1972
National Book Award). Shields also reveals the astonishing
afterlife of Stoner, which garnered new fans with each American
reissue, and then became a bestseller all over Europe after Dutch
publisher Lebowski brought out a translation in 2013. Since then,
Stoner has been published in twenty-one countries and has sold over
a million copies.
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