4.3
Romans literatuur
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, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.
Yet as the years pass, William 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’ 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.
© 2010 Blackstone Publishing (Luisterboek): 9781481586443
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 8 september 2010
4.3
Romans literatuur
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, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.
Yet as the years pass, William 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’ 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.
© 2010 Blackstone Publishing (Luisterboek): 9781481586443
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 8 september 2010
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Shadira
9 sep 2020
You Should Seriously Read ‘Stoner’ Right Now!!!!!!👍There is something fundamentally sad about the main character in John Williams’ 1965-novel Stoner. That sadness is partly why it is the greatest novel I’ve ever had the chance to read.That is the premise of this novel. The plot. And I could sit here and explain to you the whole story. From beginning to end. And despite that, if you’d pick up the novel and read through it, I truly believe you’d be able to experience what I experienced when I read it. Because somehow, this book is not about what happens within it. There is something greater. Something I’ll never be able to grasp. It is a work of art. John Williams created, with this book, something special.I personally believe it lies with the main character. There is something relatable to William Stoner. The fact that through all trouble and every sorrow, Stoner turns to his books. It is not a coincidence that the Penguin Vintage Classics-version of the novel has a stack of books
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