Nothing but the Night

Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Family Life, Literary
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Author: John Williams ISBN: 9781681373089
Publisher: New York Review Books Publication: February 12, 2019
Imprint: NYRB Classics Language: English
Author: John Williams
ISBN: 9781681373089
Publisher: New York Review Books
Publication: February 12, 2019
Imprint: NYRB Classics
Language: English

Stoner author John Williams's first novelis a searing look ata 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.

This edition of Nothing but the Night includes an interview with Nancy Gardner Williams, the author’s widow.

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Stoner author John Williams's first novelis a searing look ata 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.

This edition of Nothing but the Night includes an interview with Nancy Gardner Williams, the author’s widow.

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