Stoner by John Williams

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Once named the great forgotten novel/of the past century, in 2013 stoner became a phenomenon and reached bestseller lists in the UK and across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first publication, stoner finally found the wide and devoted readership it deserves. Have you read it yet? ‘A beautiful novel. A marvellous discovery for everyone who loves literature’ Ian McEwan, BBC R4 ‘something rarer than a great novel — It is a perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving, that it takes your breath away’ New York Times 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 savoured.

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