β Scribed by Williams, John
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Stoner author John Williams's first novel __ is a searing look at __ a man's relationship with his absent father, and how early trauma manifests throughout one's life
John Williams's first novel is a brooding psychological noir. Arthur Maxley is a young man at the end of his emotional rope. Having dropped out of college, he's holed up in a big-city hotel, living off an allowance from his family, feeling nothing but alone and doing nothing but drinking to forget it. What's brought him to this point? Something is troubling him, something is haunting him, something he cannot bring himself either to face or to turn away from. And now his father has come to town, a hail-fellow-well-met kind of guy. They've been estranged for years, and yet Arthur wants to meet--and so he does, reeling away from the encounter for a night of drinking and dancing and a final reckoning with the traumatizing past that readers will not soon forget.
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Arthur Maxley is a tense and listless young man. One day he receives a letter from his long-estranged father. Arthurβs fear and aversion to the man is powerful, yet his compulsion to see his father is irresistible. After their meeting, Arthur is propelled into a night of drinking and spontaneous int
**_Stoner_ author John Williams's first novel __ is a searing look at __ a man's relationship with his absent father, and how early trauma manifests throughout one's life** John Williams's first novel is a brooding psychological noir. Arthur Maxley is a young man at the end of his emotional rope.
**_Stoner_ author John Williams's first novel __ is a searing look at __ a man's relationship with his absent father, and how early trauma manifests throughout one's life** John Williams's first novel is a brooding psychological noir. Arthur Maxley is a young man at the end of his emotional rope.
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