Stoner

Stoner hits hard, capturing the breadth of a whole life without making it feel grand.

John Williams writes with a sober clarity that feels like the titular character. The prose carries Stoner’s dryness, his restraint, and the narrowness of the world he moves through. Where a marriage curdles in a paragraph. And a small humiliation lasts a lifetime.

It’s devastating, enthralling, and somehow still a breezy read. A strong recommend about how fast life goes by. It might just change your life.

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Steven Weill

“Arguably the most underrated American novel. Absolute masterpiece that has started picking up steam as a cult favorite over the past 10/15 years. Heartbreaking stuff, so tenderly executed that one man's objectively depressing reality becomes a series of felt universal truths. It feels particularly strong juxtaposed against modern ideology. Also it's almost definitely shorter than anything else tha”

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