Charles J Shields

The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel

John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life

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Produktbeschreibung

This biography by the New York Times best-selling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee traces the life of National Book Award-winning novelist John Williams, author of the cult classic novel Stoner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781477320105
• ISBN-10: 1477320105
• Artikelnr.: 58015524

Autorenporträt

Charles J. Shields is the author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, a New York Times bestseller, a Literary Guild Selection, and a Book-of-the-Month Club Alternate. His young adult biography of Harper Lee, I Am Scout, was chosen an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, and a Junior Literary Guild Selection. In 2011, Shields published And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life, a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. 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
3. 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
4. Part III. Stoner
* Chapter Eleven: “It Was That Kind of World”
* Chapter Twelve: “The Williams Affair”
* Chapter Thirteen: Stoner
5. Part IV. Augustus
* Chapter Fourteen: Bread Loaf and “Up on the Hill”
* Chapter Fifteen: The Good Guys
* Chapter Sixteen: “Long Life to the Emperor!”
6. Part V. The Sleep of Reason
* Poem: “An Old Actor to His Audience”
* Chapter Seventeen: “How Can Such a Son of a Bitch Have Such Talent?”
* Chapter Eighteen: In Extremis
7. Epilogue. John Williams Redux
8. Acknowledgments
9. Notes
10. Works Consulted
11. A John Williams Bibliography
12. Index