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The beauty of this book is in its unflinching realism and the devastating accuracy of its observations. There were so many parts that I underlined.
And the story of the book itself is amazing. It was published and recognized immediately for being great; and even upon its review in the New Yorker in 1965, the same year of its publication, it was already out of print. And so it goes; it was loved by "all the right people" but never found fervor enough to launch it upward in fame - a parallel with the story that is so painful, it's almost comic.
Read this book. It is so affecting, I can't really even verbalize how it affected me. I think if you are the sort of person who loves language and who loves books, this one will put to words not just a story, but an ethos which is so close to the bone, and so difficult to articulate, that you will just be in awe that Williams managed to do it, and did it with such gravitas and tenderness on the part of William Stoner, and such unsparing remorselessness on the part of Edith Stoner.
This is a brilliant, brilliant book.
And the story of the book itself is amazing. It was published and recognized immediately for being great; and even upon its review in the New Yorker in 1965, the same year of its publication, it was already out of print. And so it goes; it was loved by "all the right people" but never found fervor enough to launch it upward in fame - a parallel with the story that is so painful, it's almost comic.
Read this book. It is so affecting, I can't really even verbalize how it affected me. I think if you are the sort of person who loves language and who loves books, this one will put to words not just a story, but an ethos which is so close to the bone, and so difficult to articulate, that you will just be in awe that Williams managed to do it, and did it with such gravitas and tenderness on the part of William Stoner, and such unsparing remorselessness on the part of Edith Stoner.
This is a brilliant, brilliant book.