Stoner : a novel
Williams, John (1922 - 1994)
Stoner : a novel / by John Williams - New York : New York Review Books , 2003 - 278 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
English.
9781590171998
Literature---Study and teaching----Fiction
English teachers---Fiction
College teachers----Fiction
Marital conflict----Fiction
Adultery ----Fiction
Middle West----Fiction
Psychological fiction
Domestic fiction
FIC WIL
Stoner : a novel / by John Williams - New York : New York Review Books , 2003 - 278 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
English.
9781590171998
Literature---Study and teaching----Fiction
English teachers---Fiction
College teachers----Fiction
Marital conflict----Fiction
Adultery ----Fiction
Middle West----Fiction
Psychological fiction
Domestic fiction
FIC WIL
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