Stoner

A beautiful hardback edition of the greatest rediscovered classic of recent years. 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 rarely remember him. 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.

'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' - Ian McEwan

'A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel' - Nick Hornby

'A terrific novel of echoing sadness' - Julian Barnes

Vintage quarterbound classics: bound to be beautiful.