First published in 1948, Nothing but the Night marked the auspicious beginning of John Williams career as a novelista career that would go on to include the classics Stoner and the National Book Awardwinning Augustus. In the person of Arthur Maxley, Williams investigates the terror and the waywardness of a...
Maggie vowed to never marry a man who can’t laugh or dance, but when she and the dull new doctor in town, Everett Dulanis, wind up spending the night together in an abandoned dugout house, all that changes. Her father is the best man and his shotgun is the bridesmaid at the wedding where a union has been made, but there’s certainly no unity. Everett was engaged to Carolina Prescott, a southern lady in...