{"product_id":"stoner-a-novel","title":"Stoner : A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read. 'It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut its one of the most fascinating things that you've ever come across' Tom Hanks, TimeWilliam 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished:  UK, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Vintage Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780099561545\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John Williams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57662417109323,"sku":null,"price":13.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9780099561545.jpg?v=1782227314","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/stoner-a-novel","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}