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Stoner
by John Williams
This book is remarkable in the way it shows simplicity and common day-to-day life scenarios as interesting drama, the way the author changes between the inner world of the hero and the outer reality shows us the beauty in humanity and in feelings.
The highs and lows of life and love are shown in such a delicate way in the book you almost don't notice it, then you stop reading and you dance to your thoughts, the belief of hapiness and dreams and the dissapointment of life, the space between what we want and what we get, all of those are being combined in this book.
We get to know William as a boy and see him facing life, from loneliness to falling in love and disappointment from his love, his subpar connections with his wife and the pain she beholds onto him in his connection to his daughter, the primal urge for lust and cheating our pain away, we see a boy grow into a man, we see a whole life in what is not a long book.
My favorite part was for sure the ending chapters when our hero discovers his cancer, the journey through the last years of his life and the battle with fear and the beauty of living this world, the connection to family, and to the most basic core of humanity, the sad but motivating death and the positive aesthetic of even the darkest moments in the life, the common scene of death which we all will go through in one of those days touched a very human part of me, a part that will stay with me for the rest of my days.
The highs and lows of life and love are shown in such a delicate way in the book you almost don't notice it, then you stop reading and you dance to your thoughts, the belief of hapiness and dreams and the dissapointment of life, the space between what we want and what we get, all of those are being combined in this book.
We get to know William as a boy and see him facing life, from loneliness to falling in love and disappointment from his love, his subpar connections with his wife and the pain she beholds onto him in his connection to his daughter, the primal urge for lust and cheating our pain away, we see a boy grow into a man, we see a whole life in what is not a long book.
My favorite part was for sure the ending chapters when our hero discovers his cancer, the journey through the last years of his life and the battle with fear and the beauty of living this world, the connection to family, and to the most basic core of humanity, the sad but motivating death and the positive aesthetic of even the darkest moments in the life, the common scene of death which we all will go through in one of those days touched a very human part of me, a part that will stay with me for the rest of my days.