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...
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. John Williams's 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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约翰·威廉斯（John Edward Williams, 1922—1994），美国作家，诗人，学者。辍过学，当过电台播音，从过军。退役后入大学就读并获博士学位。
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8 有用 苏夫佳 2015-07-31 01:59:53
一本被重新发现的经典！三个月来让我看得最入迷的一本书！以平实淡雅的语言、纯粹讲故事的口吻重现了一个普通美国文学教授的一生。少年时期的懵懂无知，青年时期对知识的渴求、情窦初开的狂热，人到中年家庭生活的不幸，婚外恋的激情，事业上的波折，老年时期的力不从心......全都是可预见的日常生活，在Williams笔下却有种精准的锋利感，把读者从个人琐碎的生活中拉出来，看看别人，同时也开始思考自己。
13 有用 拉赫玛尼诺妇 2017-10-22 21:56:26
之前抱怨这书的语言太平庸连出轨戏都干瘪无趣，今晚读完最后几十页竟然哭了。多数人的一生都是这般乏善可陈，Stoner已算幸运的。当有一天我们也在生命尽头回顾自己平淡的一生，想起一些对个人而言尚算可爱的瞬间，会不会也像Stoner那样不停自问“what did you expect?"
3 有用 黄昏之鸟 2016-05-31 03:27:56
前半部分太碎了差点弃，后半部分开始撕逼才渐入佳境。我能看到一个不合时宜的普通人在生活激流前的坚守与失意，可是不打动我大概是因为，他所坚守的文学与学术，是抽象的，从描述里面我读不出那个支撑精神的着力点。
19 有用 遠藤桜 2017-08-26 15:24:34
Stoner is my hero. If you regard him as a loser, then define "success" first, please.
5 有用 eighthday 2014-08-18 03:19:54
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