Stoner
[United States] : Blackstone Audio, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2010.
Format: Eaudiobook
Edition: Unabridged.
Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 47 min.)) : digital.
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to a university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life. As the years pass, Stoner encounters a series 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' deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges not only as an archetypal American but as an unlikely existential hero, standing in stark relief against an unforgiving world.
Subjects:
Literature -- Study and teaching -- Fiction.
English teachers -- Fiction.
College teachers -- Fiction.
Marital conflict -- Fiction.
Adultery -- Fiction.
Literature -- Study and teaching -- Fiction.
English teachers -- Fiction.
College teachers -- Fiction.
Marital conflict -- Fiction.
Adultery -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781441748331 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
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Digital content provided by hoopla.
Read by Robin Field.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.