The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life

by Charles J. Shields

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477317368
• ISBN13: 9781477317365
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.6"