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  • Stoner

  • A Novel
  • Written by: John Williams
  • Narrated by: Alfred Molina
  • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (27 ratings)

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Stoner

Written by: John Williams
Narrated by: Alfred Molina
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Publisher's Summary

Waterstone's book of the year 2013

Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on best-seller lists across Europe.

William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at 19 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.

Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history and reclaims the significance of an individual life.

A listening experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured.

©2016 John Williams (P)2016 Random House AudioBooks

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One of the best books I have ever read.

It’s a profoundly sad yet beautiful painting of words driven by destiny’s brutal dance macabre at the centre of which, drowns a beautiful soul, William Stoner.

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