Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82962to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stoner Author: John Williams Narrator: Robin Field Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 9, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.47 of Total 15 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. Yet as the years pass, William Stoner encounters a succession 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’ luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

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