Twelve kinds of taste
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Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction, Literature, Fiction
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.
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Contemplative, prestige, meticulous and character-led.
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“This book is dedicated to my friends and former colleagues in the Department of English at the University of Missouri.”
American author, editor and professor. He was best known for his novels Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and Augustus (1972), which won a U.S. National Book Award-Wikipedia
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