Listen to the Sound of the Quiet American: John Williams's Stoner

Authors

Maureen Clark, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

114977

Publication Details

Clark, M. "Listen to the Sound of the Quiet American: John Williams's Stoner." Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 5 .2 (2017): 1-24.

Abstract

Stoner (1965), John Williams's third novel, questions and complicates mythologised versions of modern American identity and way of life. The story moves through two World Wars, the Great Depression following the Wall Street crash, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New-Deal America, a prolonged time of social upheaval throughout the world.