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Stoner by John Williams
Initially I found the seemingly unassuming prose of Stoner to be full of insight. The very first page coldly announces the eponymous protagonist’s death, and I was drawn in by the unromantic story.The novel focuses on William Stoner’s life: his rather miserable marriage to Edith as well as his studies and his academic career. Urged…
1910s, 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 3 STARS, 3rd pov, academia, affairs, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, books about books, campus, CLASSICS, existentialism, identity, JOHN WILLIAMS, LITERARY FICTION, literary references, male authors, MARRIAGE, midlife crisis, missouri, modern classics, philosophical, published in 1965, read in 2018, STONER, UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE, WILLIAM STONER
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