Arthur Maxley is a tense and listless young man. One day he receives a letter from his long-estranged father. Arthur's fear and aversion to the man is powerful, yet his compulsion to see his father is irresistible. After their meeting, Arthur is propelled into a night of drinking and spontaneous intimacy with a beautiful young woman. But as the memories of childhood trauma surf...
Arthur Maxley is a tense and listless young man. One day he receives a letter from his long-estranged father. Arthur's fear and aversion to the man is powerful, yet his compulsion to see his father is irresistible. After their meeting, Arthur is propelled into a night of drinking and spontaneous intimacy with a beautiful young woman. But as the memories of childhood trauma surface and disorientate, Arthur's night out rises towards the pitch of disaster.
John Williams was born on August 29, 1922 in Clarksville, Texas. He served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India. The Swallow Press published his first novel, Nothing But the Night, in 1948, as well as his first book of poems, The Broken Landscape, in 1949. Macmillan published Williams' second novel, Butcher's Crossing, in 1960.
John Williams was born on August 29, 1922 in Clarksville, Texas. He served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India. The Swallow Press published his first novel, Nothing But the Night, in 1948, as well as his first book of poems, The Broken Landscape, in 1949. Macmillan published Williams' second novel, Butcher's Crossing, in 1960.
After recieving his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Denver, and his Ph.D from the University of Missouri, Williams returned in 1954 to the University of Denver where he taught literature and the craft of writing for thirty years. In 1963 Williams received a fellowship to study at Oxford University where where he received a Rockefeller grant enabling him to travel and research in Italy for his last novel, Augustus, published in 1972. John Williams died in Arkansas on March 4, 1994.
With mind and memory, he could go back in time: where lost time was, there could he dwell, now, if but for an instant, but a splitinstant miraculously snatched from the present. Where in time? There was a moment he could remember. Sometimes in sleep it would come to him, softly, stealing on silent steps of darkness, would come to him and obscure the part of him that dwelt in now. There would enter into that sleeping part of him, his other part, a golden warmth of power that transported him back into a dream which was more actual than the unreality of his present existence. (查看原文)
气氛勾画和心理描写太美太好了，妈妈开枪那一段读着读着眼泪就出来了。（啊永远忘不了冬天Stoner去上课时在校园里感受到学生们的脚步声那一段，这一本也延续着相同的氛围和情绪。"To these people he was a noise without meaning, an explosion without disruption.")
气氛勾画和心理描写太美太好了，妈妈开枪那一段读着读着眼泪就出来了。（啊永远忘不了冬天Stoner去上课时在校园里感受到学生们的脚步声那一段，这一本也延续着相同的氛围和情绪。"To these people he was a noise without meaning, an explosion without disruption.")
3 有用 Lycidas 2018-01-23 19:13:01
还没有Stoner那种极端的凝练和沉静，反而如同暗巷里飘散的烟雾，带着梦呓般的幽浮感，之后几部一以贯之的孤独和虚无已见端倪。威廉斯这个人的可怕之处在于，能让每次开篇总像第三者一般观看主人公的读者，越往结尾离这个人越近，甚至最终融化在字句间，切身经历书中人的情绪。另，书中一些段落看起来颇像类型小说的尝试，虽然看得出无论情节设置还是心理描写都还有矫饰的成分在，功力已经远超一般人，尤其场面描写极细腻精准... 还没有Stoner那种极端的凝练和沉静，反而如同暗巷里飘散的烟雾，带着梦呓般的幽浮感，之后几部一以贯之的孤独和虚无已见端倪。威廉斯这个人的可怕之处在于，能让每次开篇总像第三者一般观看主人公的读者，越往结尾离这个人越近，甚至最终融化在字句间，切身经历书中人的情绪。另，书中一些段落看起来颇像类型小说的尝试，虽然看得出无论情节设置还是心理描写都还有矫饰的成分在，功力已经远超一般人，尤其场面描写极细腻精准，流畅生动。 (展开)
0 有用 别回头呀 2020-02-22 10:57:19
描述的语言太多了，但是不得不说文字功底太好，代入感太强。只是没有stoner给人感觉沉稳，一直是飘在空中，很孤独。
0 有用 白小天Cabin 2020-06-22 05:50:31
气氛勾画和心理描写太美太好了，妈妈开枪那一段读着读着眼泪就出来了。（啊永远忘不了冬天Stoner去上课时在校园里感受到学生们的脚步声那一段，这一本也延续着相同的氛围和情绪。"To these people he was a noise without meaning, an explosion without disruption.")
0 有用 用户Soperklaur 2021-08-30 08:52:18
一如既往地克制而沉静。
0 有用 用户Soperklaur 2021-08-30 08:52:18
一如既往地克制而沉静。
0 有用 白小天Cabin 2020-06-22 05:50:31
气氛勾画和心理描写太美太好了，妈妈开枪那一段读着读着眼泪就出来了。（啊永远忘不了冬天Stoner去上课时在校园里感受到学生们的脚步声那一段，这一本也延续着相同的氛围和情绪。"To these people he was a noise without meaning, an explosion without disruption.")
0 有用 别回头呀 2020-02-22 10:57:19
描述的语言太多了，但是不得不说文字功底太好，代入感太强。只是没有stoner给人感觉沉稳，一直是飘在空中，很孤独。
3 有用 Lycidas 2018-01-23 19:13:01
还没有Stoner那种极端的凝练和沉静，反而如同暗巷里飘散的烟雾，带着梦呓般的幽浮感，之后几部一以贯之的孤独和虚无已见端倪。威廉斯这个人的可怕之处在于，能让每次开篇总像第三者一般观看主人公的读者，越往结尾离这个人越近，甚至最终融化在字句间，切身经历书中人的情绪。另，书中一些段落看起来颇像类型小说的尝试，虽然看得出无论情节设置还是心理描写都还有矫饰的成分在，功力已经远超一般人，尤其场面描写极细腻精准... 还没有Stoner那种极端的凝练和沉静，反而如同暗巷里飘散的烟雾，带着梦呓般的幽浮感，之后几部一以贯之的孤独和虚无已见端倪。威廉斯这个人的可怕之处在于，能让每次开篇总像第三者一般观看主人公的读者，越往结尾离这个人越近，甚至最终融化在字句间，切身经历书中人的情绪。另，书中一些段落看起来颇像类型小说的尝试，虽然看得出无论情节设置还是心理描写都还有矫饰的成分在，功力已经远超一般人，尤其场面描写极细腻精准，流畅生动。 (展开)