Stoner

The son of a Midwestern farmer, William Stoner comes to the University of Missouri in 1910 to study agriculture. He had intended to return home and take over his father's farm - but instead, inspired by the professor of English literature, he remains at the university to teach. Stoner tells of love and conflict, passion and responsibility against the backdrop of academic life in the early 20th century. Powerfully and movingly written, Stoner is a study of a dedicated man relentlessly committed to honesty in himself and in his dealings with others. The truth of one man's unassuming life can rarely have been captured with such skill and beauty.

Literature & Fiction

JOHN, WILLIAMS

Literary

Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random

Butchers Crossing

Genre Fiction

Vintage Books

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.\nJohn Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

stoner

Vintage

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Reference

Robert Decker

Words, Language & Grammar

Pearson Higher Education

Life Cycle of a Frog (Picture Puffin Fact Books)

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

Puffin UK

Competition and Efficiency in International Food Supply Chains: Improving Food Security

Routledge

Annales Cambriæ (Classic Reprint)

History

Europe

Forgotten Books

Annales Cambriae (Classic Reprint)

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