Ci sono voluti cinquant’anni per riscoprire John Williams e ora che il lettore italiano ha celebrato la pubblicazione di Stoner, ecco l’altro capolavoro di uno dei più significativi scrittori americani del secolo scorso.
For the first time, a collected edition of the major works of John Williams, including the acclaimed novel Stoner.
John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life Charles J. Shields. ———.“For My Contemporaries.” In The Exclusions of a Rhyme: Poems and Epigrams. ... Ellman, Richard. “Publisher for Poets.” Saturday Review, July 22, 1961. Epstein, Joseph.
The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire.
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He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it.
Judas är såväl ömsint kärlekshistoria som allegori över Israel och den bibliska urkund som gett landet dess namn.
First published in 1948, Nothing but the Night marked the auspicious beginning of John Williams' career as a novelist--a career that would go on to include the classics Stoner and the National Book Award winning Augustus.
Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes.
CENTENARIO DEL NACIMIENTO DE JOHN WILLIAMS Pronto en las pantallas, en un Oeste dirigido por Gabe Polsky y protagonizado por Nicolas Cage y Rachel Keller.
Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession.