The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life by Charles J. Shields

The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life

Charles J. Shields

320 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography reflective slow-paced
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When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet John Williams's quietly powerful tale of a Midwestern college professor, William Stoner, whose life becomes a parable o...

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