Paperback, 288 pages
English language
Published Dec. 16, 2012 by Vintage Books.
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 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 reading experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured.
--back cover
Es increíble cómo una novela clásica, con una trama tan sencilla, consigue transmitir tanto en pocas palabras, parece que ni le sobra ni le falta nada
Maravillosa y entrañable. Sorprende como un ser como Stoner que en sus comienzos es tan anodino se te incruste de tal forma mientras vives su vida a través de las páginas y que será imposible olvidarlo en el futuro fuera de ellas.
