Augustus by Williams, John
Augustus by Williams, John
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WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
By the Author of Stoner In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher's Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner. Augustus is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an American master.
Author: John Williams
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 08/19/2014
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781590178218
By the Author of Stoner In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher's Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner. Augustus is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an American master.
Author: John Williams
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 08/19/2014
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781590178218
About the Author
John Williams (1922-1994) was born and raised in northeast Texas. Despite a talent for writing and acting, Williams flunked out of a local junior college after his first year. He reluctantly joined the war effort, enlisting in the Army Air Corps, and managed to write a draft of his first novel while there. Once home, Williams found a small publisher for the novel and enrolled at the University of Denver, where he was eventually to receive both his B.A. and M.A., and where he was to return as an instructor in 1954.
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