Stoner
John Williams
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 ...
Publish Date
2006-06-20T00:00:00.000Z
2006-06-20T00:00:00.000Z
First Published in 1965
Goodreads rating
4.32
ISBN
9781590171998
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Recommendations
4
Recommendations
2013-06-10T17:20:57.000Z
Best book I've read this year is a remarkable novel by John Williams called STONER. It isn't about drugs but it's about everything else... – source2017-12-30T18:49:18.000Z
I read 51 books in 2017 (may squeeze in one or two more before EOY). Here are my favorites, with a little bit of commentary. In no particular order: – source