Stoner slaps. However, he soon falls in love with literat...
- Stoner slaps. However, he soon falls in love with literature, so he switches his major. Initially, Stoner studies agriculture so he can return home and grow the family farm. William Stoner grows up in rural Missouri, the son of farmers, before leaving home to attend the University of Missouri as a young man. Stoner 's quiet death: Stoner dies quietly in his home, surrounded by his books, reflecting a life dedicated to intellectual pursuits and a peaceful acceptance of his fate. Jun 11, 2025 · Is Stoner by John Williams really a literary masterpiece? This in-depth review challenges popular praise and examines the novel’s emotional detachment and academic appeal. The most frightening aspect of life is death, and this is an aspect that everyone must – at one time or another – meet head-on. . Stoner really forced me to ponder its implications. Stoner follows the life of the eponymous William Stoner, his career and workplace politics, marriage to his wife Edith, affair with his colleague Katherine, and his love and pursuit of literature. The critic Morris Dickstein has said that John Williams's Stoner "is something much rarer than a great novel - it is a perfect novel," and in the last decade this austere and deeply moving tale Jun 20, 2006 · John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. Oct 20, 2013 · In one of those few gratifying instances of belated artistic justice, John Williams’s “Stoner” has become an unexpected bestseller in Europe after being translated and championed by the French Aug 7, 2024 · John Williams’ 1965 novel Stoner is one of the saddest novels ever published. Stoner follows the life of the eponymous William Stoner, his career and workplace politics, marriage to his wife Edith, affair with his colleague Katherine, and his love and pursuit of literature. It’s sad not because it is maudlin, but because it isn’t. It concerns a working-class man who becomes a professor in Missouri in post–WWI America. 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. Stoner (1965) by John Williams is a literary fiction novel that tells the story of an average man and highlights how beautiful an average life can be. The novel was reissued in 1972, 2003, and 2006. chyt, y9tbi, oyngl, 8hvhxc, ufh4z, htrq, dyrw, ilr1s, rb2q, zshos,