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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aShields, Charles J. _eautore
245	1	4	_aThe Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel : _bJohn Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life / _cCharles J. Shields.
264		1	_aAustin : _bUniversity of Texas Press, _c[2022]
264		4	_c©2018
300			_a1 online resource (305 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tIntroduction -- _tPART I Nothing But the Night -- _tCHAPTER ONE He Comes from Texas -- _tCHAPTER TWO “ Ho, Ho! Wasn’t I the Character Then?” -- _tCHAPTER THREE Rough Draft -- _tCHAPTER FOUR Key West -- _tCHAPTER FIVE Alan Swallow -- _tCHAPTER SIX Love -- _tPART II Butcher’s Crossing -- _tCHAPTER SEVEN The Winters Circle -- _tCHAPTER EIGHT “ Natural Liars Are the Best Writers” -- _tCHAPTER NINE Butcher’s Crossing -- _tCHAPTER TEN Fiasco -- _tPART III Stoner -- _tCHAPTER ELEVEN “ It Was That Kind of World” -- _tCHAPTER TWELVE “ The Williams Affair” -- _tCHAPTER THIRTEEN Stoner -- _tPART IV Augustus -- _tCHAPTER FOURTEEN Bread Loaf and “ Up on the Hill” -- _tCHAPTER FIFTEEN The Good Guys -- _tCHAPTER SIXTEEN “ Long Life to the Emperor!” -- _tPART V The Sleep of Reason -- _tCHAPTER SEVENTEEN “ How Can Such a Son of a Bitch Have Such Talent?” -- _tCHAPTER EIGHTEEN In Extremis -- _tEPILOGUE John Williams Redux -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tNotes -- _tWorks Consulted -- _tA John Williams Bibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aWhen 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 audience in America and especially in Europe. The New York Times called Stoner “a perfect novel,” and a host of writers and critics, including Colum McCann, Julian Barnes, Bret Easton Ellis, Ian McEwan, Emma Straub, Ruth Rendell, C. P. Snow, and Irving Howe, praised its artistry. The New Yorker deemed it “a masterly portrait of a truly virtuous and dedicated man.” The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel traces the life of Stoner’s author, John Williams. Acclaimed biographer Charles J. Shields follows the whole arc of Williams’s life, which in many ways paralleled that of his titular character, from their shared working-class backgrounds to their undistinguished careers in the halls of academia. Shields vividly recounts Williams’s development as an author, whose other works include the novels Butcher’s Crossing and Augustus (for the latter, Williams shared the 1972 National Book Award). Shields also reveals the astonishing afterlife of Stoner, which garnered new fans with each American reissue, and then became a bestseller all over Europe after Dutch publisher Lebowski brought out a translation in 2013. Since then, Stoner has been published in twenty-one countries and has sold over a million copies.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650		0	_aAuthors, American _y20th century _vBiography.
650		0	_aAuthors, American-20th century-Biography.
650		0	_aWilliams, John,-1922-1994.
650		0	_aWilliams, John,-1922-1994.-Stoner.
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. _2bisacsh
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856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/317365
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