John Williams: Stoner

Read the greatest rediscovered classic of recent years
ISBN: 9780099561545
Author: John Williams
Page: 288
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2012
Format: Book
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS
Language: English

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Stock: 1-10 copies

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William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely. Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual life. A reading experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured.

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