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出版社:Vintage Classics (2012年7月5日)
平装:320页
语种：英语
ISBN:0099561549
条形码:9780099561545
商品尺寸:13 x 2 x 19.8 cm
商品重量:222 g
ASIN:0099561549
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媒体推荐
"I was stunned by it... It’s beautifully written in simple but brilliant prose, a novel of an ordinary life, an examination of a quiet tragedy, the work of a great but little-known writer" (Ruth RendellGuardian)
"A masterpiece of sad lucidity, as moving as it is psychologically compelling" (Peter KempSunday Times)
"It is a remarkably affecting story, told in quiet, unshowy prose" (Stefan ColliniTimes Literary Supplement)
"In recent times I have owed more to word of mouth than to the statements of reviewers, when it comes to finding my way to rewarding work published or reissued… This is also true, or truer still, ofStoner" (Karl MillerTimes Literary Supplement)
"My favourite book of the year...a masterpiece―beautifully written with a rare tenderness and wisdom that will make you want to read it again" (Jonathan PughDaily Mail)
"With prose of breathtaking clarity, and a narrative that flows along seamlessly, Williams subverts the American dream via an underachieving and rather unlucky university lecturer... Anyone who loves literature will surely love this" (Judy MoirHerald)
"The other book that cheered me up this year wasStonerby John Williams…re-emerging this year – rather triumphantly (and permanently this time, I think)" (Robin RobertsonGlasgow Sunday Herald)
"A compassionate depiction of Everyman that celebrates the transformative power of literature" (Melonie ClarkeThe Lady)
"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)
"A terrific novel of echoing sadness" (Julian Barnes)
"Stoneris a brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise, and elegant novel" (Nick HornbyThe Believer)
"I have read few novels as deep and as clear as John Williams'Stoner. It deserves to be called a quiet classic of American literature" (Chad Harbach)
"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. It is universally adored by writers and readers alike. The book is so beautifully paced and cadenced that it deserves the status of classic" (Colum McCannGuardian)
"A beautiful and moving novel, as sweeping, intimate and mysterious as life itself" (Geoff Dyer)
"One of the great unheralded 20th century American novels...Almost perfect" (Bret Easton Ellis)
"It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But its one of the most fascinating things that you've ever come across" (Tom HanksTime)
"John Williams'sStoneris something rarer than a great novel -- it is a perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving, that it takes your breath away...few stories this sad could be so secretly triumphant, or so exhilarating. Williams brings to Stoner's fate a quality of attention, a rare empathy, that shows us why this unassuming life was worth living." (New York Times)
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 theNight, in 1948, as well as his first book of poems,The Broken Landscape, in 1949. Macmillan published Williams' second novel,Butcher'sCrossing, 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.
出版社:Vintage Classics (2012年7月5日)
平装:320页
语种：英语
ISBN:0099561549
条形码:9780099561545
商品尺寸:13 x 2 x 19.8 cm
商品重量:222 g
ASIN:0099561549
商品描述
媒体推荐
"I was stunned by it... It’s beautifully written in simple but brilliant prose, a novel of an ordinary life, an examination of a quiet tragedy, the work of a great but little-known writer" (Ruth RendellGuardian)
"A masterpiece of sad lucidity, as moving as it is psychologically compelling" (Peter KempSunday Times)
"It is a remarkably affecting story, told in quiet, unshowy prose" (Stefan ColliniTimes Literary Supplement)
"In recent times I have owed more to word of mouth than to the statements of reviewers, when it comes to finding my way to rewarding work published or reissued… This is also true, or truer still, ofStoner" (Karl MillerTimes Literary Supplement)
"My favourite book of the year...a masterpiece―beautifully written with a rare tenderness and wisdom that will make you want to read it again" (Jonathan PughDaily Mail)
"With prose of breathtaking clarity, and a narrative that flows along seamlessly, Williams subverts the American dream via an underachieving and rather unlucky university lecturer... Anyone who loves literature will surely love this" (Judy MoirHerald)
"The other book that cheered me up this year wasStonerby John Williams…re-emerging this year – rather triumphantly (and permanently this time, I think)" (Robin RobertsonGlasgow Sunday Herald)
"A compassionate depiction of Everyman that celebrates the transformative power of literature" (Melonie ClarkeThe Lady)
"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)
"A terrific novel of echoing sadness" (Julian Barnes)
"Stoneris a brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise, and elegant novel" (Nick HornbyThe Believer)
"I have read few novels as deep and as clear as John Williams'Stoner. It deserves to be called a quiet classic of American literature" (Chad Harbach)
"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. It is universally adored by writers and readers alike. The book is so beautifully paced and cadenced that it deserves the status of classic" (Colum McCannGuardian)
"A beautiful and moving novel, as sweeping, intimate and mysterious as life itself" (Geoff Dyer)
"One of the great unheralded 20th century American novels...Almost perfect" (Bret Easton Ellis)
"It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But its one of the most fascinating things that you've ever come across" (Tom HanksTime)
"John Williams'sStoneris something rarer than a great novel -- it is a perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving, that it takes your breath away...few stories this sad could be so secretly triumphant, or so exhilarating. Williams brings to Stoner's fate a quality of attention, a rare empathy, that shows us why this unassuming life was worth living." (New York Times)
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 theNight, in 1948, as well as his first book of poems,The Broken Landscape, in 1949. Macmillan published Williams' second novel,Butcher'sCrossing, 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.
