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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.John Williams s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection 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 back cover Download Stoner – kino-fada.fr In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart William Stoner grew up on a farm, a hardscrabble farm too small to providethan just subsistence living They were an undersized family for that time period, just his father and mother and himself It took all of them to keep up with the backbreaking work of a farm in the early...Spoiler alert read at your own peril.UPDATE December 2010 I just submitted this to Better Book Titles I hope they accept it.Original Review October 2009 This is the most straight forward linear narrative type of novel I ve read in the past year So at first, I was not impressed But I soon realized that the novel is impressive precisely because it is able to be so damn linear, the writing style so damn plain, and the characters so damn dull and yet and yet it manages to make me continue rea Spoiler alert read at your own peril.UPDATE December 2010 I just submitted thi...THIS WAS MY BEST BOOK OF 2016 It was a hard decision it was a choice between this andThe Vegetarian by Hang Kang But I had to think which book taught be the most, and which book helped me the most I enjoyed them both immensely, I loved them, but this one set me on my path in life thus, I will always be grateful for John Williams and his Stoner He opened the book and as he did so it became not his own He let his fingers rifle throu THIS WAS MY BEST BOOK OF 2016 It was a hard decision it was a choice between this andThe Vegetarian by Hang Kang But I had to think which book taught be the most, and which book...After 63 pages Stunned by Stoner This is agonisingly wonderful At the end Finished Him and me Exquisite but exhausted Then I immediately started rereading something I have only previously done with children s picture books It is, without question, my joint favourite book ever The other, utterly different ones are Titus Groan Gormenghast which I reviewed HERE and the Heaven and Hell trio which I reviewed HERE But it s hard to explain its mesmerising power in a way that does it j After 63 pages Stunned by Stoner This is agonisingly wonderful At the end Finished Him and me Exquisite but exhausted Then I immediately started rereading something I have only previously done with children s picture books It is, without question, my joint favourite book ever The other, utterly different ones are Titus Groan Gormenghast which I reviewed HERE and the Heaven and Hell trio which I reviewed HERE But it s hard to explain its mesmerising power in a way that does it justice WHAT SORT OF STORY It opens with a page of downbeat, but carefully crafted spoilers, rather like an obituary, after which, the story is told straightforwardly and chronological...I read Stoner after I saw that almost all my friends on GR had read it It s an impressive work which I finished months ago but hard a hard time figuring out what to say about it with thousands of reviews already out there Stoner is the life story of an unremarkable man and the consensus seems to be he did his best He came from a Missouri farm family and a poor background but manages to become an English professor at the university One theme is the loneliness and distant courtesy of man I read Stoner after I saw that almost all my friends on GR had read it It s an impressive work which I finished months ago but hard a hard time figuring out what to say about it with thousands of reviews already out there Stoner is the life story of an unremarkable man and the consensus seems to be he did his best He came from a Missouri farm family and a poor background but manages to become an English professor at the university One theme is the loneliness and distant courtesy of many of the characters, which I think applies to Stoner himself This may be a trait of many academic folks who have s...I was going to start out this review of Stoner by feigning comic incredulity that the former conductor of the Boston Pops wrote a novel about potheads, but that is far, far too obvious and unsatisfying even for the likes of me Instead, I am going to confess that I read only half of it and, thereby, my ignorance has been properly disclaimed but that this aborted reading filled me with such unmitigated contempt for the author that I plan on mounting every soapbox if soapboxes haven t been tech I was going to start out this review of Stoner by feigning comic incredulity that the former conductor of the Boston Pops wrote a novel about potheads, but that is far, far too obvious and unsatisfying even for the likes of me Instead, I am going to confess t...For the hardworking men and women living in the open, windswept farm country of the American Midwest during the late 19th and early 20th century, day to day existence was frequently harsh an occasionally downright hostile, a stark, demanding life chiseling character as can be seen above in artist Grant Wood s American Gothic If you take a good look at this painting and then envision a son, an only child, working the fields alongside his father, you will have a clear image of the starting point For the hardworking men and women living in the open, windswept farm country of the American Midwest during the late 19th and early 20th century, day to day existence was frequently harsh an occasionally downright hostile, a stark, demanding life chiseling character as can be seen above in artist Grant Wood s American Gothic If you take a good look at this painting and then envision a son, an only child, working the fields alongside his father, you will have ....John Williams s Stoner blew me away I ve never read anything like it and some passages left me moved to the point of exhaustion When I finished I put down the book well, the Nook , picked it up again, and re read highlighted pages Stoner gave me strength if you believe that the right books find you at the right time, as sometimes I believe, this book found me at the right time Stoner outlines the life of a farm kid who, at his dad s recommendation, attends college for agricultural studies b John Williams s Stoner blew me away I ve never read anything like it and some passages left me moved to the point of exhaustion When I finished I put down the book well, the Nook , picked it up again, and re read highlighted pages Stoner gave me strength if you believe that the right books find you at the right time, as sometimes I believe, this book found me at the right time Stoner outlines the life of a farm kid who, at his dad s recommendation, attends college for agricultural studies but switches to literature and becomes a low level university faculty member for most of his career He marries an affluent city girl, starts teaching, and loves his daughter His marriage begins to crumble and he starts an affair with a student He runs afoul of university politics and lands an insulting te...UN DIFETTO DI LUCE Shakespeare le parla attraverso tre secoli di storia, Mr Stoner Riesce a sentirlo Cosa le sta dicendo, Mr Stoner Cosa significa questo sonetto Stoner alz lo sguardo con lentezza, riluttante Significa , disse Significa , ripet , e non riusc a terminare la frase.William Stoner era all universit per studiare agraria e tornar...

Stoner
  • English
  • 18 May 2018
  • Paperback
  • 278 pages
  • 1590171993
  • John Williams
  • Stoner