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...
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
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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 r...
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.
#含有剧透# “丧“，用John Williams自己的话说就是"He could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared to remember." 报着这样的预判开始读，但末了发现斯教授的一生虽然没有成名成家，至少做了志趣所在的工作、收获过毫无保留的真爱、身后还有著作遗...#含有剧透# “丧“，用John Williams自己的话说就是"He could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared to remember." 报着这样的预判开始读，但末了发现斯教授的一生虽然没有成名成家，至少做了志趣所在的工作、收获过毫无保留的真爱、身后还有著作遗世。如果这都算丧，那么我…颇受感动的部分是描写斯教授父母“来于土地、归于土地”的人生终点。(展开)
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...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. (展开)
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15 有用 爱尔兰小土豆🥔 2015-09-12 21:21:47
年度心碎图书，从软弱到反抗几乎用尽一生，到最后也草草结束，很少有高潮，看似平淡无奇，但处处都让人心痛。
2 有用 至秦 2017-06-24 18:54:10
今年收到的第一份生日礼物
2 有用 浅显 2018-02-08 17:44:25
#含有剧透# “丧“，用John Williams自己的话说就是"He could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared to remember." 报着这样的预判开始读，但末了发现斯教授的一生虽然没有成名成家，至少做了志趣所在的工作、收获过毫无保留的真爱、身后还有著作遗... #含有剧透# “丧“，用John Williams自己的话说就是"He could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared to remember." 报着这样的预判开始读，但末了发现斯教授的一生虽然没有成名成家，至少做了志趣所在的工作、收获过毫无保留的真爱、身后还有著作遗世。如果这都算丧，那么我…颇受感动的部分是描写斯教授父母“来于土地、归于土地”的人生终点。 (展开)
3 有用 卧槽十点了 2016-01-25 16:26:47
我知道年龄不太对 但我读的时候一直脑补stoner是李思涯lomax是甘阳 最后晚宴上stoner没给lomax一巴掌让我很失望
27 有用 Endless_Summer 2016-01-22 23:13:17
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... 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. (展开)