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...
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...
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...
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 ...
"As a fictional hero, William Stoner will have to dwell in obscurity forever. But that, too, is our destiny. Our most profound acts of virtue and vice, of heroism and villainy, will be known by only those closest to us and forgotten soon enough. Even our deepest feelings will, for the most part, lay...
Stoner managed to sustain deep, quiet intensity that quickly elevated it from a merely good book to one of the good ones. Starts out as a realistic academic horror story and ends as a specimen of the best of realist fiction.
William Stoner is an only child who grows up on a farm in rural America in the early years of the twentieth century. His parents are persuaded by the county agent to send him to the local college where a course has been started in agricultural science. A gauche and inarticulate student, William's li...
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