{"product_id":"stoner-1","title":"Stoner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful hardback edition of the iconic forgotten classic, the story of one man's ordinary, extraordinary life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel' Nick Hornby\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A terrific novel of echoing sadness' Julian Barnes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eVINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Stoner","offer_id":45542247497925,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-78487-914-3.jpg?v=1766964035","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/stoner-1","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}