具体描述
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.
And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.
John Williams's luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.
作者简介
John Williams was born on August 29, 1922 in Clarksville, Texas. He served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India. The Swallow Press published his first novel, Nothing But the Night, in 1948, as well as his first book of poems, The Broken Landscape, in 1949. Macmillan published Williams' second novel, Butcher's Crossing, in 1960. After recieving his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Denver, and his Ph.D from the University of Missouri, Williams returned in 1954 to the University of Denver where he taught literature and the craft of writing for thirty years. In 1963 Williams received a fellowship to study at Oxford University where where he received a Rockefeller grant enabling him to travel and research in Italy for his last novel, Augustus, published in 1972. John Williams died in Arkansas on March 4, 1994.
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多年以前我听一个老奶奶讲她的人生故事。她说，在收到女儿车祸噩耗的那天，她把自己关在屋子里，没有哭，只是静静坐着。当门再次打开时，已是神色如常，前来吊唁的人什么安慰的话都说不出来，只能叹口气回去。 她解释在那间屋子里发生了什么，说：“我把我自己的一部...
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用户评价
能把一个普通人的生活写得这么生动而且真实，不夸张不造作不离奇，但同时又能引人入胜，这非常难得。
评分泪点：Katherine后来去了一个女校教书，博士论文出了书，谨致W.S.。
评分Stoner's heroism is delicately intertwined with his bitter failures, it is a secret power that makes him invulnerable. After all, he has achieved everything he truly treasured throughout his life. Yes, that power is his ever-lasting desire and never-dying awe towards beauty, knowledge and love itself.
评分隔壁老王的故事
评分A rich, sombre, finely hewn novel that is admirably simple, for tackling life's true sadness with transcedent serenity and existential wit, for seeing life whole without delusion or despair. With a pellucid and reticent prose, it addresses life's inevitable mediocrity and obscurity, while evokes passion and purity in seeking an adequate existence.
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