Stoner by John Williams - ISBN: 9781784879143
Hardcover
An ordinary life reveals extraordinary truths of love, loss, and meaning.

Stoner

A special edition of the literary classic

$32.89

  • Hardcover

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    5 December 2023

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Summary

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS - Bound to be beautiful

A beautiful hardback edition of the iconic forgotten classic, the story of one man’s ordinary, extraordinary life.

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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784879143
ISBN-10:1784879142
Author:John Williams
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:5 December 2023
Weight:372g
Dimensions:206mm x 138mm x 30mm
Series:Vintage Quarterbound Classics
About The Author

John Williams

John Williams was an author, editor and professor. Born in 1922 in Texas, he served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India. His first novel, Nothing But the Night, was published in 1948. After receiving his PhD in 1954, Williams returned to the University of Denver where he first studied to teach literature and creative writing for thirty years. It was during this time that he wrote the novels Butcher’s Crossing (1960) and Stoner (1965). His last novel, Augustus, won the National Book Award in 1973. John Williams died in Arkansas in 1994.

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