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Stoner

John Williams, 1965

Medium length, about 278 pages

A quiet life of work and disappointment, told with great dignity.

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  1. Is Stoner's life a failure, a success, or neither?
  2. What did you make of how he faces disappointment?
  3. Why might a quiet book about an ordinary life be worth a club's evening?

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