{"product_id":"stoner","title":"Williams John: Stoner [2023] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful hardback edition of the greatest rediscovered classic of recent years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death, his colleagues remember him rarely.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel' Nick Hornby\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A terrific novel of echoing sadness' Julian Barnes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Williams, John","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":47102143988051,"sku":"9781784879143","price":24.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/john-williams-williams-john-stoner-2023-hardback-9781784879143-52273277698387.jpg?v=1695322050","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/stoner","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}