Stoner
by John Williams
Taste attributes: dramaslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticlinearglossyenclosedemotive & stirringhuman spirit/resilience/survivalcomplex relationshipinjustice/tragedy/vengeance
Boxlist takeA grounded novel that is emotional, contained and weighty. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
Pace: slow · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: very stirringHow we score
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4.3 / 5
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About This Book
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.
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- Author
- John Williams
- Published
- 1965
- Pages
- 293
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