"It was a lonely household, of which he was an only child, and it was bound together by the necessity of its toil. William Stoner is the lone son of a hard scrabble farming couple. In that simple way Stoner is life affirming. A tale of a small life not perfectly but unassumingly lived. What's more I make a point each year of recommending it to, or even buying a copy of it for, someone. That's what I do each Christmas, I re-read Stoner. When you read this it will be Boxing Day and I will be reading the novel again. I say the perfect novel because that's what John Williams' Stoner has been called. I first read the "perfect novel" a decade ago.
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