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The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel

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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.


List of contents










  • Introduction
  • 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
  • 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
  • Part III. Stoner
    • Chapter Eleven: “It Was That Kind of World”
    • Chapter Twelve: “The Williams Affair”
    • Chapter Thirteen: Stoner
  • Part IV. Augustus
    • Chapter Fourteen: Bread Loaf and “Up on the Hill”
    • Chapter Fifteen: The Good Guys
    • Chapter Sixteen: “Long Life to the Emperor!”
  • 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
  • Epilogue. John Williams Redux
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Works Consulted
  • A John Williams Bibliography
  • Index


  • About the author










    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.


    Summary

    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.

Product details

Authors Charles J Shields, Charles J. Shields
Publisher University Of Texas Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 29.02.2020
 
EAN 9781477320105
ISBN 978-1-4773-2010-5
No. of pages 320
Dimensions 140 mm x 217 mm x 25 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, Biography / Autobiography

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