Read the greatest rediscovered classic of recent yearsA beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life Ian McEwanWilliam 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 fathers 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.A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel Nick HornbyA terrific novel of echoing sadness Julian Barnes

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9780099561545

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Język
AN
PL
Ilość stron
290
Data premiery
2012-07-05
Rodzaj okładki
MIĘKKA
Termin realizacji
24
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