Stoner
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Romance publicado em 1965, caído no esquecimento. Tal como o seu autor, John Williams – também ele um obscuro professor americano, de uma obscura universidade. Passados quase 50 anos, o mesmo amor à literatura que movia a personagem principal levou a que uma escritora, Anna Gavalda, traduzisse o livro perdido. Outras edições se seguiram, em vários países da Europa. E em 2013, quando os leitores da livraria britânica Waterstones foram chamados a eleger o melhor livro do ano, escolheram uma relíquia. Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Bret Easton Ellis.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This reprint of Williams's remarkable 1965 novel offers a window on early 20th century higher education in addition to its rich characterizations and seamless prose. Sent by his hard-scrabble farmer father to the University of Missouri to study agriculture, William Stoner is sidetracked by an obsessive love of literature and stimulated by a curmudgeonly old professor, Archer Sloane. Sloane helps Stoner avoid service in WWI, and Stoner eventually becomes an assistant professor. He then meets and marries a St. Louis beauty, Edith, who quickly subjugates her contemplative, passive husband. As decades pass, Stoner entrenches himself deep into the life of the mind, developing into a master teacher but never finding solace in the outside world. Stoner's single joy is Grace, their daughter, whom Edith appropriates as a weapon in her very personal war against Stoner's quest for inner peace. Williams (1922 1994) won the NBA for Augustus (1973), and NYRB will republish his western, Butch's Crossing next year. Williams's prose flows in a smooth, efficient current that demands contemplation.
