Stoner
Description:... 'It's the most marvellous discovery for everyone who loves literature' IAN McEWAN 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. It is a novel to be savoured. 'Stoner is a brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise, and elegant novel' NICK HORNBY 'A terrific novel of echoing sadness' JULIAN BARNES
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