![]() William Maxwell's So Long, See You Tomorrow (1981), a heartbreaking, confessional story about how a boyhood moment of weakness earns the narrator a lifelong guilt over his cowardly act of betrayal, is another understated masterwork. Yet subtle mood-fictions such as Stoner create a hunger for similar, thoughtful works. ![]() Hype dictates nowadays, meaning calm, understated novels are often overlooked. Williams was a career academic and Stoner was his third of four novels. Since then, John Williams's subtle account of a farmer's unassuming son who attends a midwestern college to study agriculture, only to discover literature and instead become a university lecturer, continues to beguile readers across the world. John McGahern lovingly championed Stoner and wrote an introductory essay of rare critical intuition and insight. In order to secure the wider reverence, the support of a master was sought. ![]() And yet again, the reaction was positive, if muted.Īlmost 30 years would pass before a publisher decided to reissue it. Some time later, in 1973, Stoner was published in the UK, again without fanfare. Yet readers loved Stoner and it would become a book that lives through the insistence of word of mouth. ![]() Fifty years ago an American writer published a tender, quiet novel that caused barely a ripple. ![]()
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