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Book synopsis

This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read.

'It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But its one of the most fascinating things that you've ever come across' Tom Hanks, Time

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 - of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life.

Book details

Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Stoner
• Subtitle: A Novel
• Author: John Williams
• Series: Vintage Classics,
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780099561545
• ISBN: 0099561549
• ID: 04476184
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 226 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 127 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. July 2012

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