A review by kirstenrose22
Stoner by John Williams

5.0

This was stunning. A farm boy goes to college for the ag program but falls in love with literature, and ends up staying at the university for 40 years (through grad school and his teaching career). Much of his life ends up disappointing him, except for his books - and by extension, teaching, which is his way of transmitting that love. Read it if you fell in love with books and words and ideas. Bleak and spare and melancholy, but in a lovely way.