Stoner

A Novel

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Williams, JohnMcGahern, JohnEinleitung

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William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-09-956154-5

ProduktartTaschenbuch

EinbandPaperback

FormatB-Format Paperback (UK)

VerlagRandom House UKVintage Classics

Erscheinungsdatum05.07.2012

Seiten320 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 129 mm, Höhe 197 mm, Dicke 20 mm

Gewicht227 g

WarengruppeEnglish Books

KategorieFiction

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Williams, JohnMcGahern, JohnEinleitung

John Williams was an author, editor and professor. Born in 1922 in Texas, he served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India. His first novel, Nothing But the Night, was published in 1948. After receiving his PhD in 1954, Williams returned to the University of Denver where he first studied to teach literature and creative writing for thirty years. It was during this time that he wrote the novels Butcher's Crossing (1960) and Stoner (1965). His last novel, Augustus, won the National Book Award in 1973. John Williams died in Arkansas in 1994.