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Stoner

Stoner

by John Williams, John McGahern
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Librarian's note: Alternative cover edition . 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. Stonertells 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.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780099561545
ISBN10 0099561549
Series/Work OL3511459W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Vintage
Pages 320
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At April 18, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

academic Adultery campus College teachers College teachers, fiction Conflits conjugaux domestic fiction English teachers Étude et enseignement Fiction Fiction, family life Fiction, family life, general Fiction, general Fiction, psychological Literature Littérature Marital conflict Middle west, fiction Missouri, fiction Professeurs d'anglais

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