‘Stoner’: A Quiet American Masterpiece
At the Touchstone conference, a friend gave me her copy of the novel Stoner, first published in 1965. I started reading it as I waited at the gate to catch my flight home.

At the Touchstone conference, a friend gave me her copy of the novel Stoner, first published in 1965. I started reading it as I waited at the gate to catch my flight home.
At the Touchstone conference, a friend gave me her copy of the novel * Stoner*, first published in 1965. I started reading it as I waited at the gate to catch my flight home. I would have stayed awake till I finished it, but this quiet novel about the uneventful life of a Midwestern assistant professor of English was emotionally too difficult to take. Woke…
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