Stoner
Uiterlijk 17 januari in huis
Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe.
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 scholars 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 Williamss 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.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 30 juli 2019
Aantal pagina's: 336
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: John Williams
Tweede Auteur: J. McGahern
Hoofdredacteur: John Macgahern
Hoofduitgeverij: NYRB Classics
Eerste Vertaler: Bernhard Robben
Tweede Vertaler: Bernhard Robben
Originele titel: Stoner
AI-gegenereerd: Nee
Editie: 50
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 140 mm
Product hoogte: 23 mm
Product lengte: 222 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 137 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 26 mm
Verpakking lengte: 221 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 465 g
eWaste: Nee
EAN: 9781681374574