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Stoner is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams. It was reissued in 1972 by Pocket Books, in 2003 by Vintage [1] and in 2006 by New York Review Books Classics with an introduction by John McGahern. [2] Stoner has been categorized under the genre of the academic novel, or the campus novel. [3]
Dec 13, 2013 · Fiction. This article is more than 10 years old. 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...
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Dec 26, 2021 · A quiet novel reborn. William Stoner climbs no great heights, he leaves barely a trace as John Williams writes: "Stoner's colleagues, who held him in no particular esteem when he was alive, speak ...
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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.
Jan 11, 2019 · The title of his biography comes from a 2007 New York Times article by the critic Morris Dickstein acclaiming Stoner as “the perfect novel”. In the novel the hero’s life is transformed by ...
Sep 12, 2013 · It was the 1929 crash, the Spanish Civil War, the rise of Fascism in which human values were systematically eroded, and the very year that Stoner was published was also the year of the first Vietnam sit-ins on US campuses.
Feb 7, 2016 · Stoner is a study of an ordinary life graced by quiet heroism. Unquestionably one of the finest novels of the 20th century, its genius lies in its candour and in prose that simmers with subtle...
