Stoner (New York Review Books Classics)
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Stoner (New York Review Books Classics)

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe.

 

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 €œproper€ 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.

  • TitleStoner (New York Review Books Classics)
  • BrandNew York Review of Books
  • ManufacturerNYRB Classics
  • BindingPaperback
  • ProductGroupBook
  • ItemPartNumber22026418
  • ColorBlack
  • ReleaseDate2006-06-20T00:00:01Z
  • UnitCount1
  • EANs9781590171998