Stoner: A Novel By John Williams (Paperback, 2012)

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Colum Mc Cann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century but it seems it is forgotten no longer
- in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe Forty-eight years after its first quiet publication in the US Stoner is finally finding the wide & devoted readership it deserves Have you read it yet? William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture A seminar on English literature changes his life & he never returns to work on his father's farm Stoner becomes a teacher He marries the wrong woman His life is quiet & after his death his colleagues remember him rarely Yet with truthfulness compassion & intense power this novel uncovers a story of universal value Stoner tells of the conflicts defeats & victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history & 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