Stoner -

John Williams

Vintage Classics

2012

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780099561545

The greatest rediscovered classic of recent years, Stoner is a literary legend - now repackaged with a more commercial, eye-catching and human-centred cover image.

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 - of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life.

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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 🫶🏻🩷..