What a wonderful gentle read. The life of William Stoner, a student and then a Professor at the University of Missouri. He initially enrolled to study agriculture, and help manage his father’s farm, but in one very significant life changing moment he discovered his true vocation in the world of lite...
This is one of the books that I know technically great, but just leaves me a bit cold. I think part of it is that the twist, if twist it is, wasn't that, well twistful. It would make a good book for discussion for some aspects of the story. But there was something about it that left me cold
When you discover that this book is about the life of a university lecturer you may automatically think about a certain movie in which a certain music teacher has a dream of creating a fantastic piece of music only to find himself trapped in a high school teaching music until his retirement to then ...
I don’t know where to start with this book. I went through a myriad of emotions, seamlessly flitting from one to the other, be it anger, frustration, sadness, pity, empathy or resentment. To be honest I‘m still feeling all those things, but I’ll have a go at making this review as coherent as possibl...
"Il giovane, che non conosce il futuro, vede la vita come una sorta di avventura epica, una sorta di Odissea attraverso mari sconosciuti e isole ignote, dove metterà alla prova le proprie capacità e scoprirà la propria immortalità. L’uomo di età matura, che ha vissuto il futuro sognato un tempo, ved...
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 ...
Here's a scary story for you. Not one with fictional creatures or supernatural occurrences, but instead, a novel that details all the quiet miseries and disappointments we work-a-day stiffs endure throughout the course of a lifetime. Stoner is written with great care and intelligence. It will make y...
bookshelves: fraudio, epistolatory-diary-blog, roman-civilisation, tbr-busting-2014, historical-fiction, published-1972 Read from January 05 to October 02, 2014 Description: A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves’ I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative...
Very good fiction can be better than non-fiction at explaining your place in the universe and this book does just that by considering the life and times of just one character, William Stoner. There's not much to his story but for those of us who have had a fairly mediocre life (and who embrace that...
I was sure for some time that I hated this book. It's a tale about the truly unremarkable life of a man named William Stoner. I found it incredibly depressing; the decisions of the protagonist were vague and weak. His passions were tinged with failure, frustration and missed opportunity. Instead of ...
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