STONER

STONER

WILLIAMS, JOHN

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Year of edition:
2012
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B-1900
ISBN:
978-0-09-956154-5
Pages :
288
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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.

Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual life. A reading experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured.

John Williams (1922-1994) va néixer i es va criar al nord-est de Texas. Malgrat el talent que havia demostrat per a l'escriptura i la interpretació, va deixar els estudis en acabar el primer curs universitari. Va col·laborar en diverses publicacions i emissores de ràdio, fins que el 1942 es va allistar a contracor a l'exèrcit de l'aire. Va passar dos anys i mig com a sergent a l'Índia i a Birmània, i va aprofitar per escriure un esborrany de la seva primera novel·la, Nothing But the Night. Quan va tornar a casa, va aconseguir que una editorial minoritària li publiqués la novel·la i es va matricular a la Universitat de Denver, on es va llicenciar i va obtenir un títol de postgrau, i on el 1954 va tornar com a professor. Va crear el programa d'escriptura creativa de la universitat i va formar part del seu equip docent fins que es va jubilar el 1985. Durant aquells anys, va ser molt actiu tant en el terreny de la docència com en el de l'escriptura. Va publicar dos llibres de poemes i tres novel·les: Butcher's Crossing, Stoner i Augustus (guanyadora del National Book Award 1973). 

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