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Stoner

Stoner

A Novel. Ausgezeichnet: Waterstones Book of the Year 2013. Publisher's Publicity Circle Awards: Nielsen Award for a Generic Campaign 2014

von John Williams

Taschenbuch
320 Seiten; 197 mm x 147 mm
Sprache English
2013 Random House UK; Vintage, London
ISBN 978-0-09-956154-5
 

Besprechung

A terrific novel of echoing sadness Julian Barnes

Kurztext / Annotation

Have you read the novel everyone is talking about about? Stoner: the 2013 surprise international bestseller


Beschreibung für Leser

Ausgezeichnet: Waterstones Book of the Year, 2013.Ausgezeichnet: Publishers Publicity Circle Awards:Nielsen Award for a Generic Campaign, 2014


Biografische Anmerkung zu den Verfassern

John Williams was an author, editor and professor. Born in 1922 in Texas, he served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India. His first novel, Nothing But the Night, was published in 1948. After receiving his PhD in 1954, Williams returned to the University of Denver where he first studied to teach literature and creative writing for thirty years. It was during this time that he wrote the novels Butcher's Crossing (1960) and Stoner (1965). His last novel, Augustus, won the National Book Award in 1973. John Williams died in Arkansas in 1994.


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