{"product_id":"stoner-a-novel-by-john-williams","title":"Stoner: A Novel by John Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut its one of the most fascinating things that you've ever come across' Tom Hanks, Time\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWilliam 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback | ISBN: 9780099561545 | Extent: 320 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 5 Jul 2012, Vintage Classics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57201175658878,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780099561545.jpg?v=1775119001","url":"https:\/\/www.davids-bookshops.co.uk\/products\/stoner-a-novel-by-john-williams","provider":"David's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}