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Stoner: A Novel

by John McGahern, John Williams
Stoner: A Novel
Stoner: A Novel

Poignant journey of an ordinary life's significance.

Stoner by John Williams is a book that truly resonates with the quiet moments of life that define us. It's for you if you appreciate literature that delves deep into character and explores the profound impact of seemingly inconsequential decisions. Readers have found a haunting beauty in the simplicity of Stoner's life story – it's a novel that understands the understated heroism of just enduring, making it a read you're unlikely to forget.

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Stoner: A Novel

by John McGahern, John Williams
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ISBN: 9780099561545
Authors: John McGahern, John Williams
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2020-12-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Classics, Literature
Goodreads rating: 4.33
(rated by 161760 readers)

Description

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 savored.
 

Poignant journey of an ordinary life's significance.

Stoner by John Williams is a book that truly resonates with the quiet moments of life that define us. It's for you if you appreciate literature that delves deep into character and explores the profound impact of seemingly inconsequential decisions. Readers have found a haunting beauty in the simplicity of Stoner's life story – it's a novel that understands the understated heroism of just enduring, making it a read you're unlikely to forget.

  • Waterstones Book of the Year (2013)
  • Blogistanian Globalia (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.