Stoner Av John Williams

<p><b>A beautiful hardback edition of the iconic forgotten classic, the story of one man''s ordinary, extraordinary life. </b><br><br>William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father''s farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death, his colleagues remember him rarely.<br><br>Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value - of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life.<br><br><b>''A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life'' Ian McEwan</b><br><br><b>''A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel'' Nick Hornby</b><br><br><b>''A terrific novel of echoing sadness'' Julian Barnes</b><br><br><b>VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND C