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Stoner

William Stoner, the son of a dirt-poor Missouri farming family, embraces the scholar's life after attending college, but his education and marriage to a privileged young woman estranges him from his family.

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Main Author:	Williams, John Edward, 1922- (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York Review Books, [2003]
Series:	New York Review Books classics.
Subjects:	College teachers > Fiction. Marital conflict > Fiction. Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction.
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Summary:	William Stoner, the son of a dirt-poor Missouri farming family, embraces the scholar's life after attending college, but his education and marriage to a privileged young woman estranges him from his family.
Item Description:	"A New York Review book"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description:	xiv, 278 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	9781590171998 1590171993
Author Notes:	John Williams was born in Clarksville, Texas on August 29, 1922. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 and spent two and a half years as a sergeant in India and Burma. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949 and a Master of Arts degree in 1950 from the University of Denver. During this time, his first two books were published: Nothing but the Night in 1948 and The Broken Landscape in 1949. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in 1954. He taught at the University of Denver from 1954 until his retirement in 1985. His other books include Butcher's Crossing, Stoner, and The Necessary Lie. His historical novel Augustus won the National Book Award for fiction in 1973. He also edited the anthology English Renaissance Poetry and was the founding editor of the Denver Quarterly. He died of respiratory failure on March 3, 1994. (Bowker Author Biography)