Stoner

Stoner is one of the great forgotten novels of American literature. John Williams tells the story of a man born to poor farmers who eventually discovers his passion for literature and becomes a professor. It is the tale of a modest life that left little trace. A novel about friendship, marriage, a campus story, a social novel, and ultimately a novel about work. About the hard, relentless work on the farms; about the labor that burdens one with a destructive marriage; about the struggle to raise a daughter in a toxic household with patient empathy and to introduce often indifferent students to literature at the university. Stoner is not a romance, but above all, it is a novel about love: about the love of poetry, of literature, and also about romantic love.