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Literature & Fiction

Nothing but the Night (New York Review Books Classics)

Nothing but the Night (New York Review Books Classics)

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 Williamsâ€™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, heâ€™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. Whatâ€™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. Theyâ€™ve been estranged for years, and yet Arthur wants to meetâ€”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.

This edition of Nothing but the Night includes an interview with Nancy Gardner Williams, the authorâ€™s widow.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2019-02-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781681373072

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