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Dec 13, 2013 · Stoner: the must-read novel of 2013. Fifty years after it was first published to little fanfare, Stoner, the story of an academic whose life is full of disappointments, has become an unexpected...
Stoner is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams. It was reissued in 1972 by Pocket Books, in 2003 by Vintage and in 2006 by New York Review Books Classics with an introduction by John McGahern. Stoner has been categorized under the genre of the academic novel, or the campus novel.
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Overview. Stoner (1965) by John Williams is a literary fiction novel that tells the story of an average man and highlights how beautiful an average life can be. It concerns a working-class man who becomes a professor in Missouri in post–WWI America. The novel was reissued in 1972, 2003, and 2006.
Oct 20, 2013 · “Stoner” ’s protagonist is an unglamorous, hardworking academic who marries badly, is estranged from his child, drudges away in a dead-end career, dies, and is forgotten: a failure. The book is...
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Dec 26, 2021 · Stoner is a novel from another time about a life in a time before that. The "perfect novel" does not mean the unblemished novel. In fact it is far from perfect.
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Jun 22, 2013 · Simon Hammond. Sat 22 Jun 2013 12.00 EDT. I n 1965 a brief, favourable review of Stoner, a novel by an English professor called John Williams, ran in the New Yorker. The book was described as "a...
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. Show more.
