{"product_id":"9780099561545","title":"Stoner : A Novel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: John Williams\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But its one of the most fascinating things that you've ever come across' Tom Hanks, TimeWilliam 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet 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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwan'A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel' Nick HornbyINTRODUCED BY JOHN McGAHERN\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49420753666275,"sku":"9780099561545","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9780099561545.jpg?v=1784273018","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780099561545","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}