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Bezig met laden... Niets dan de nacht (1948)door John Williams
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Masterful depiction of a young man in agony. He has tried to live his life apart from his past, which contains memories too painful to bear examining. This faulty resolution fails when his father appears (after a long separation) and requests a meeting. The young man slowly unravels and reader learn, bit by bit, of the terrible tragedy of his childhood as we watch him fall apart. Terrific pacing and outstanding character study. ( ) In this dramatic novella, the main character is a young man who is obviously struggling. He has a troubled relationship with his father and is clearly in some sort of mental crisis as the short timeline unfolds. The root of his issues is finally revealed after an increasingly frantic unfolding of events. This is [[John Williams]]'s first novel. His writing is already confident and succinct, but I felt the dramatic subject matter didn't quite suit his writing style. I still highly recommend reading [Stoner] first. I think it's clearly his best book (I've now read all 4 of his novels), though all of his writing is good and worthwhile. This a story about Arthur leads a life of loneliness and dreams. Time seems to move slowly through the events in a day in his life. We find out, slowly too, the great tragedy that determines his life of loneliness and not bring able to relate to people well, particularly women. The novel is extremely suspenseful even though there is no apparent danger in his life. It is caused by the moves between his imagination or dreams and reality. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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. Nothing But the Night includes an interview with Nancy Williams, John Williams's widow. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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