William Stoner entered the University of Missouri as a freshman in the year 1910, at the age of nineteen.
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Stoner
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by John Williams
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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 disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.
John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.
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domestic fiction, psychological fiction, Literature, Fiction, Study and teaching, College teachers, Adultery, English teachers, Marital conflict, campus, academic, College teachers, fiction, Missouri, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, family life, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, psychological, Middle west, fiction, Littérature, Romans, nouvelles, Étude et enseignement, Professeurs d'anglais, Conflits conjugauxShowing 7 featured editions. View all 46 editions?
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"This book is dedicated to my friends and former colleagues in the Department of English at the University of Missouri."
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Stoner is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams. It was reissued in 1972 by Pocket Books, in 2003 by Vintage and in 2006 by New York Review Books Classics with an introduction by John McGahern.
Stoner has been categorized under the genre of the academic novel, or the campus novel. Stoner follows the life of the eponymous William Stoner, his undistinguished career and workplace politics, marriage to his wife, Edith, affair with his colleague, Katherine, and his love and pursuit of literature.
Despite receiving little attention upon its publication in 1965, Stoner has seen a sudden surge of popularity and critical praise since its republication in the 2000s.
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