Stoner
by John Williams | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1590171993 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1590171993 Global Overview for this book
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Amazon Editorial Review
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.
John 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.
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.
John 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.
This was a very good and enjoyable read.
A story of nothing more than one man's rather uneventful life. Born into a very poor farming family, he gets the opportunity to attend university and then ends up teaching at the same university. He has the misfortune to fall in love with and marry an extremely awful woman, who shapes a fair bit of his life.
A story of nothing more than one man's rather uneventful life. Born into a very poor farming family, he gets the opportunity to attend university and then ends up teaching at the same university. He has the misfortune to fall in love with and marry an extremely awful woman, who shapes a fair bit of his life.
Journal Entry 3 by keeta1 at By mail / post / courier, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, January 17, 2018
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Happy reading!
Happy reading!
Journal Entry 4 by crimson-tide at Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Thursday, January 25, 2018
Lovely hitchhiker! :D
Thanks very much for this extra wish list book, keeta1.
Thanks very much for this extra wish list book, keeta1.