Stoner by John Williams

Stoner by John WilliamsRead the greatest rediscovered classic of recent years 'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwan William 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. Yet with

Their first buoyant forays into adulthood

A boy with the very same birthday

An immaculate portrait of adolescent love from one of our most beloved novelists

and substantially revised and updated in 2017

doughnut feasts and some rather magical stew is perfect for all pirates

and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe

and a reclamation of the spiritual

A new relationship couldn't have come at a better time - her thirties have not been the liberating

which includes an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey

football and handball

The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children

next-level approach to vegetable cooking that Ottolenghi fans and vegetable lovers everywhere have been craving