Stoner (New York Review Books Classics)

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Stoner (New York Review Books Classics)
Binding : Taschenbuch, Label : NYRB Classics, Publisher : NYRB Classics, NumberOfItems : 1, medium : Taschenbuch, numberOfPages : 288, publicationDate : 2006-06-20, releaseDate : 2006-06-20, authors : John Williams, languages : english, ISBN : 1590171993

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Stoner
“A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life…I’m amazed a novel this good escaped general attention for so long.” —Ian McEwan “One of the great unheralded 20th-century American novels …Almost perfect.” —Bret Easton Ellis “ Stoner is a novel of an ordinary life, an examination of a quiet tragedy, the work of a great but little-known writer.” —Ruth Rendell “A beautiful and moving novel, as sweeping, intimate, and mysterious as life itself.” —Geoff Dyer “I have read few novels as deep and as clear as Stoner. It deserves to be called a quiet classic of American literature.” —Chad Harbach “The most beautiful book in the world.” —Emma Straub 'A poignant campus novel from the mid-'60s—an unjustly neglected gem.' —Nick Hornby, People “The book begins boldly with a mention of Stoner’s death, and a nod to his profound averageness: ‘Few students remembered him with any sharpness after they had taken his courses.’ By the end, though, Williams has made Stoner’s disappointing life into such a deep and honest portrait, so unsoftened and unromanticized, that it’s quietly breathtaking.”— The Boston Globe “Williams’ descriptions of the experience of reading both elucidate and evince the pleasures of literary language; the ‘minute; strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words’ in which Stoner finds joy are re-enacted in Williams’ own perfect fusion of words.”— n+1 “ Stoner; by John Williams, is a slim novel, and not a particularly joyous one. But it is so quietly beautiful and moving, so precisely constructed, that you want to read it in one sitting and enjoy being in it, altered somehow, as if you have been allowed to wear an exquisitely tailored garment that you don’t want to take off.”— The Globe and Mail “One of the great forgotten novels of the past century. I have bought at least 50 copies of it in the past few years, using it as a gift for friends...The book is so beautifully paced and cadenced that it deserves the status of classic.”—Colum McCan [...]

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Stoner
“A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life…I’m amazed a novel this good escaped general attention for so long.” —Ian McEwan “One of the great unheralded 20th-century American novels …Almost perfect.” —Bret Easton Ellis “ Stoner is a novel of an ordinary life, an examination of a quiet tragedy, the work of a great but little-known writer.” —Ruth Rendell “A beautiful and moving novel, as sweeping, intimate, and mysterious as life itself.” —Geoff Dyer “I have read few novels as deep and as clear as Stoner. It deserves to be called a quiet classic of American literature.” —Chad Harbach “The most beautiful book in the world.” —Emma Straub 'A poignant campus novel from the mid-'60s—an unjustly neglected gem.' —Nick Hornby, People “The book begins boldly with a mention of Stoner’s death, and a nod to his profound averageness: ‘Few students remembered him with any sharpness after they had taken his courses.’ By the end, though, Williams has made Stoner’s disappointing life into such a deep and honest portrait, so unsoftened and unromanticized, that it’s quietly breathtaking.”— The Boston Globe “Williams’ descriptions of the experience of reading both elucidate and evince the pleasures of literary language; the ‘minute; strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words’ in which Stoner finds joy are re-enacted in Williams’ own perfect fusion of words.”— n+1 “ Stoner; by John Williams, is a slim novel, and not a particularly joyous one. But it is so quietly beautiful and moving, so precisely constructed, that you want to read it in one sitting and enjoy being in it, altered somehow, as if you have been allowed to wear an exquisitely tailored garment that you don’t want to take off.”— The Globe and Mail “One of the great forgotten novels of the past century. I have bought at least 50 copies of it in the past few years, using it as a gift for friends...The book is so beautifully paced and cadenced that it deserves the status of classic.”—Colum McCan [...]

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