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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Shields, Charles J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (305 p.)

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 of solitude and anguish eventually found an admiring a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• PART I Nothing But the Night
• CHAPTER ONE He Comes from Texas
• CHAPTER TWO “ Ho, Ho! Wasn’t I the Character Then?”
• CHAPTER THREE Rough Draft
• CHAPTER FOUR Key West
• CHAPTER FIVE Alan Swallow
• CHAPTER SIX Love
• PART II Butcher’s Crossing
• CHAPTER SEVEN The Winters Circle
• CHAPTER EIGHT “ Natural Liars Are the Best Writers”
• CHAPTER NINE Butcher’s Crossing
• CHAPTER TEN Fiasco
• PART III Stoner
• CHAPTER ELEVEN “ It Was That Kind of World”
• CHAPTER TWELVE “ The Williams Affair”
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN Stoner
• PART IV Augustus
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN Bread Loaf and “ Up on the Hill”
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Good Guys
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN “ Long Life to the Emperor!”
• PART V The Sleep of Reason
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN “ How Can Such a Son of a Bitch Have Such Talent?”
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN In Extremis
• EPILOGUE John Williams Redux
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Works Consulted
• A John Williams Bibliography
• Index