Stoner -

John Williams

NYRB Classics

2006

278 páginas

9h 16m

ISBN-10: 1590171993

William 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.

John 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.

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5 (Perfeito)

É como se eu estivesse me despedindo de um velho amigo 💔.

Esse livro é bem comovente, a história de vida do stoner é simples mas ao mesmo tempo cheia de camadas. Acredito que a vida dele poderia ter tomado rumos muito diferentes se não fosse suas escolhas precipitadas ☹️. Com relação a escrita, achei muito fluida e envolvente. Indico de mais essa leitura 🫶🏻🩷..