{"product_id":"stoner","title":"Stoner by John Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam 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, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Williams’s 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Landmark Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":47244072976624,"sku":"9781590171998","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47244073009392,"sku":"9781681374574","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/1385\/8477\/files\/content_63c4f1b5-ad7b-4426-93c2-a51b9d0ccdc8.jpg?v=1739909530","url":"https:\/\/landmark-booksellers.myshopify.com\/products\/stoner","provider":"Landmark Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}