{"product_id":"stoner-a-novel-by-john-williams-1","title":"Stoner: A Novel \/ John Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003eNYRB, 2006. Trade pb. Good condition. Previous owner's notes on last page and verso of rear cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWilliam 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, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn Williams’s 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DESIERTO BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56474608795814,"sku":null,"price":9.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/stoner.webp?v=1755039555","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/stoner-a-novel-by-john-williams-1","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}