A review by quakerquixote
Stoner by John Williams

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

This is, in the end, a serious book, but readers should not miss out on how it is also quite funny. As an English professor myself, I was often laughing out loud at some of the characterizations of academic life and how well they've held up. The dry academic satire that makes up much of the book is woven with a somewhat sad tale about the ultimately sympathetic William Stoner. But the ending is quite powerful, redemptive, and deeply humane.