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Nothing But the Night by John Williams
About Nothing But the Night by John Williams
Nothing But the Night (1948) by John Williams is his debut novel — a slim, intense psychological novella about Arthur Maxley, a young man whose night with a woman in a Midwestern city brings long-suppressed memories of childhood trauma to the surface. Remarkable as a debut: the formal control, psychological precision, and spare prose already show the voice that would produce Stoner and Augustus. Short (128 pages) and long out of print before its rediscovery.
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