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Stoner
Paperback, 278 pages, Random House Inc, List Price: $14.95 | purchase
Genres:
This book is about:
- English teachers,
- Study and teaching,
- College teachers,
- Literature,
- Middle West,
- Marital conflict,
- Adultery,
- Psychological fiction,
- Domestic fiction,
- Fiction
NPR stories about Stoner
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Uptight Is All Right: 3 Books For Finicky Folks
This book is not about a man who smokes too much marijuana. It's about William Stoner, who grows up on a hardscrabble Midwestern farm and whose life is transformed when he discovers literature at the University of Missouri. While he originally intends to study agronomy, Stoner becomes a professor of English. It's downhill after that — a miserable marriage, an alienated daughter, an unspectacular academic career. He has fleeting periods of contentment and love, but he never seizes them... more
—Martha Southgate
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