An edition of Stoner (1965)

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An edition of Stoner (1965)

Stoner

printing (16)
  • 4.32 ·
  • 34 Ratings
  • 146 Want to read
  • 13 Currently reading
  • 51 Have read

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.
--back cover

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
278

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Stoner
2015, Natur & kultur
in Swedish - 1. pocketutg.
Cover of: Stoner
Stoner: Roman
2014, Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl., Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
in German
Cover of: Stoner
Stoner
2014, Baile del Sol
in Spanish
Cover of: Profesor Stoner
Profesor Stoner
2014, Wydawnictwo Sonia Draga
in Polish
Cover of: Stoner
Stoner
2014, Natur & kultur
in Swedish - 1. utg.
Cover of: Stoner
Stoner
2014, Polirom
Paperback in Romanian - Biblioteca Polirom
Cover of: Stoner
Stoner
2012, Vintage Books
Paperback in English - Vintage Classics edition (40)
Cover of: Stoner
Stoner
2006, New York Review Books
Trade Paperback in English - 6th printing
Cover of: Stoner
Stoner
2006, New York Review Books
Paperback in English - printing (16)

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New York

Edition Notes

US/CAN

Series
New York Review Books classics
Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
2003

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3545.I5286 S7 2003
lccn_permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/2005022751

Contributors

Introduction
John McGahern

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xiv, 278 p. ;
Number of pages
278

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21598174M
Internet Archive
stonernovel0000will
ISBN 10
1590171993
ISBN 13
9781590171998
LCCN
2005022751
Hathi Trust
005263184
Library Thing
169174
Canadian National Library Archive
31826866
Goodreads
58466277

Work Description

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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William Stoner entered the University of Missouri as a freshman in the year 1910, at the age of nineteen.
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