Stoner

"Williams has acknowledged the early influence of Thomas Wolfe, Evelyn Waugh and ...Zane Grey, but the dominant feature of his writing is a poetic style. The concrete language--direct and without ornamentation--yields a kind of muted intensity that in STONER is reinforced by an almost rueful lyricism....John Williams's unsparing novels express a highly qualified though resilient optimism about our ability to salvage something of value from life's impossible conditions."Williams, John is the author of 'Stoner', published 2006 under ISBN 9781590171998 and ISBN 1590171993.