Williams, Stoner.
Stoner.
Info | 11. Aufl. New York, Review Books, 2003. 20 cm. 278 S. Tb. Zustand: gut. |
Sprache | Englisch |
ISBN | 9781590171998 |
CHF | 4,-- |
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.