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书名：Stoner斯通纳

作者：John Williams
出版社名称：Vintage Classics
出版时间：2015
语种：英文
ISBN：9780099561545
商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：320
★一部被7家出版社退稿的小说，在作者43岁时，终于被一位年轻的编辑慧眼识中（另一位由他发掘的作家是托马斯•品钦）。50年来，这本在书店难觅身影的书，却疯狂流传于二手书店与地下文学圈。

★蒙尘50年，重新出版，《斯通纳》一年销售超20万册，成为水石书店、英国广播公司（BBC）、美国《纽约时报》、德国《明镜周刊》年度经典读物，位列荷兰、法国、西班牙、意大利和以色列等多国文学畅销榜前列。《纽约客》刊发书评：“《斯通纳》出版50年后的畅销，是献给被亏欠的艺术一次迟来的正名。”
 
★美国国家图书奖得主科伦·麦凯恩将《斯通纳》列为自己十大挚爱小说之一，汤姆·汉克斯称《斯通纳》是令其爱不释手的五本小说之一。

Stoner《斯通纳》的故事关乎于一个勇者有过的失败却不失意的人生：即使不能拥有完美的生活，所幸追求成就完整的自我。第1眼阅读《斯通纳》，你也许看到的是故事；第二眼阅读《斯通纳》，你也许感受到的是经典；第三眼你看到了生活；第四眼你会发觉，你看到的不是他者，正是自己。

媒体评论：
威廉斯的写作显得澄澈、节制却准确。就像被打磨光滑的橡木上反射出本色、持久的光泽。它的行文结构潜藏得不为人察觉，且毫无瑕疵，像一栋房子，精妙绝伦到绝无仿制再建的可能。《斯通纳》一书的伟大之处在于，它以不带一丝一毫悲喜的冷静洞察了生活本质的全部。它从本质上触及了预见期待的与真实体验的生活间的落差……《斯通纳》迟到五十年后畅销，是献给被亏欠的艺术一次迟来的正名。——《纽约客》

斯通纳活过，然后死去，如你我一样。他生活中发生的每一件事就发生在你我面前，看似平淡。然而，写出这种“简单”却需要天才才能完成。读这本书是一本令人难过却又美妙的阅读体验。——《星期日泰晤士报》

约翰·威廉斯的《斯通纳》刻画了一个将追求智识当作对抗无意义的战争、拒绝与外部世界作廉价妥协的人的一生。它的意义或许不只是一部伟大的小说——它简直是一部几近完美的小说，机构精巧，语言优美，故事动人，展示着一种夺人心魄的完美。——《纽约时报》

一件文学的珍宝。——《明镜周刊》

超乎寻常的力量。直击生活的真相……语言清澈优美。它是一部献给所有热爱文学之人的传奇。——伊恩·麦克尤恩（布克奖得主，《赎罪》作者）

这故事能让你沉迷。——汤姆·汉克斯

一本精彩绝伦的小说，既丰富又忧郁，记录着伤痛与失去的同时也留存了美好温柔的时刻。这本小说完美展现了小说艺术的要素，它像一条河流，冷静而又流畅的平静笔调裹挟着磅礴延绵的力量。——亚当·福尔兹（英国布克奖提名作家）

《斯通纳》是我放在案头的常备书……它是被遗忘在上世纪伟大的作品之一。这本书的节奏和语言如此之美，是一本文学经典。——科伦·麦凯恩（美国国家图书奖得主）

斯通纳里有一种高度有序的娱乐性，但并不容易被体察。作者威廉斯自己将之描述为“逃往现实”，既痛且爱。这本小说的澄澈就是深刻、纯真的快乐。
——约翰·麦克葛汉（爱尔兰小说家）

Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer – in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet publication in the US, Stoner is finally finding the wide and devoted readership it deserves. Have you read it yet?
William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely.
Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual life. A reading experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured.

Review
"This quietly brilliant book, subtle, slow and painfully real, almost feels like it’s written by Stoner himself."(Eleanor Halls GQ)

"I was stunned by it... It’s beautifully written in simple but brilliant prose, a novel of an ordinary life, an examination of a quiet tragedy, the work of a great but little-known writer"
(Ruth Rendell Guardian)

"A masterpiece of sad lucidity, as moving as it is psychologically compelling"
(Peter Kemp Sunday Times)

"It is a remarkably affecting story, told in quiet, unshowy prose"
(Stefan Collini Times Literary Supplement)

"In recent times I have owed more to word of mouth than to the statements of reviewers, when it comes to finding my way to rewarding work published or reissued… This is also true, or truer still, of Stoner" (Karl Miller Times Literary Supplement)

"My favourite book of the year...a masterpiece―beautifully written with a rare tenderness and wisdom that will make you want to read it again" (Jonathan Pugh Daily Mail)

"With prose of breathtaking clarity, and a narrative that flows along seamlessly, Williams subverts the American dream via an underachieving and rather unlucky university lecturer... Anyone who loves literature will surely love this" (Judy Moir Herald)

"The other book that cheered me up this year was Stoner by John Williams…re-emerging this year – rather triumphantly (and permanently this time, I think)"
(Robin Robertson Glasgow Sunday Herald)

"A compassionate depiction of Everyman that celebrates the transformative power of literature" (Melonie Clarke The Lady)

"A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life… I’m amazed a novel this good escaped general attention for so long" (Ian McEwan)
《斯通纳》讲述了生命中至为重要的部分：爱，认同，怜悯，志业，傲骨，信任与死亡。
一个勇者有过的失败不失意的人生：即使不能拥有完美的生活，所幸追求过完整的自我。

美国，密苏里州，来自偏远农场的农家子弟、19岁的威廉·斯通纳进入州立密苏里大学学习农学。自一堂选修文学课为起点，他的一生就此悄然改变。未来的斯通纳成为了一名大学老师，结婚、生子、教学、退休、衰老、死亡。在他生命的尽头，或许他可以坦然面对这个问题：你的一生，还要期望别的什么吗？

这是一部蕴含着真诚、激情与紧凑力量的小说，探究了历史洪流所忽视的人性之间的冲突、溃败与幸存，重新唤起思考每个个体独特存在的意义，作者约翰·威廉斯向世人展示了凡人中的勇者是如何生活的。
约翰·威廉斯（John Williams, 1922—1994）美国作家，诗人，学者。辍过学，当过电台播音，从过军。退役后入大学就读并获博士学位，于1945年-1985年间在母校丹佛大学任教，教授大学英语及创意写作。他曾编辑出版学术文集《文艺复兴时期的英语诗歌》，也创作过两本诗集。一生只写了四部小说：《惟有黑夜》、《屠夫十字镇》、《斯通纳》、《奥古斯都》。

John Williams was born on August 29, 1922 in Clarksville, Texas. He served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India. The Swallow Press published his first novel, Nothing But the Night, in 1948, as well as his first book of poems, The Broken Landscape, in 1949. Macmillan published Williams' second novel, Butcher's Crossing, in 1960. In 1963 Williams received a fellowship to study at Oxford University where he received a Rockefeller grant enabling him to travel and research in Italy for his last novel, Augustus, published in 1972. John Williams died in Arkansas on March 4, 1994.
William Stoner entered the University of Missouri as a freshman in the year 1910, at the age of nineteen. Eight years later, during the height of World War I, he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree and accepted an instructorship at the same University where he taught until his death in 1956. He did not rise above the rank of assistant professor, and few students remembered him with any sharpness after they had taken his courses. When he died his colleai.ues made a memorial contribution of a medieval manuscript to the University library. This manuscript may still be found in the Rare Books Collection, bearing the inscription: ‘Presented to the Library of the University of Missouri, in memory of William Stoner, Department of English. By his colleagues.’
An occasional student who comes upon the name may wonder idly who William Stoner was, but he seldom pursues his curiosity beyond a casual question. Stoner’s colleagues, who held him in no particular esteem when he was alive, speak of him rarely now; to the older ones, his name is a reminder of the end that awaits them all, and to the younger ones it is merely a sound which evokes no sense of the past and no identity with which they can associate themselves or their careers.
He was born in 1891 on a small farm in central Missouri near the village of Boonevilie, some forty miles from Columbia, the home of the University. Though his parents were young at the time of his birth—his father twenty-five, his mother barely twenty—Stoner thought of them, even when he was a boy, as old. At thirty his father looked fifty; stooped by labor, he gazed without hope at the arid patch of land that sustained the family from one year to the next. His mother regarded her life patiently, as if it were a long moment that she had to endure. Her eyes were pale and blurred, and the tiny wrinkles around them were enhanced by thin graying hair worn straight over her head and caught in a bun at the back.