Caversham Critics: 🎅🎅🎅The Stoner by John Williams

Xmas Book Club! The December Meetup is the SECRET SANTA BOOKSWAP SPECIAL- simply bring a wrapped book as an anonymous gift for another critic. We will make a pile on the table and randomly pick one each as early Christmas gifts. Books can be used or new and should not be anything we have read together- just something you know someone else will love! Participation is optional, the usual style of book discussion will also be happening.

Stoner by John Williams:

William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death, his colleagues remember him rarely.

Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value - of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life.