{"product_id":"9780099561545","title":"Stoner : A Novel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: John Williams\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 5 July 2012 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 127 x 21mm | 224g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But its one of the most fascinating things that you've ever come across' Tom Hanks, TimeWilliam 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 remember him rarely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwan'A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel' Nick HornbyINTRODUCED BY JOHN McGAHERN\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Williams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56495271608645,"sku":"9780099561545","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780099561545.jpg?v=1764260910","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780099561545","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}