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Stoner (novel) Stoner. (novel) 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]
John Williams, John McGahern (Introduction) 4.33. 173,061 ratings20,628 reviews. 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 ...
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Jun 20, 2006 · Stoner is a story of great hope for the writer who cares about her work.”—Stephen Elliott “ Stoner by John Williams, contains what is no doubt my favorite literary romance of all time. William Stoner is well into his 40s, and mired in an unhappy marriage, when he meets Katherine, another shy professor of literature.
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Oct 20, 2013 · Stoner’s wife, Edith, isn’t a 2-D caricature; she’s been raised in an emotional vacuum, taught only useless ornamental skills, sheltered as wholly as possible from reality, and “her moral ...
- Tim Kreider
Dec 26, 2021 · Stoner is a quiet novel. Perhaps that's why it vanished with barely a trace when first released. It was published as America burned during the 1960s. It could not have been more out of place ...
- Stan Grant
Dec 3, 2015 · More. The following is from John William's novel, Stoner. Williams (1922–1994) was born and raised in northeast Texas. After a stint in the Army Air Corps, during which he wrote a draft of his first novel, Williams enrolled at the University of Denver, where he was eventually to receive both his B.A. and M.A. He returned as an instructor in ...
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John Williams - Stoner Rating - 5/5 Pitch-perfect. Stoner is the story of a man whose life and death go quite unnoticed and forgotten. This man, whose life is no less wonderful than any other human being's, is left abandoned. The man, Stoner, a professor by choice is then resigned to fate like a fallen leaf left at the mercy of the wind....
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