Stoner

About
Reliving William Stoner's life in his eyes, is what you get in this book, all the ups and downs in his life
, marrying the wrong woman, but having a good job at the local university. Talking about the past. It's all in this magnificent book that's absolutely worth it to read. 

Summary
William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. Later, he 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. Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual lie. A reading experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured. 
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Review
This is literally one of the best books I've read in my life, a must-read is how I can describe this book. Not a single moment you're bored while reading this, an emotional novel that absolutely worth to read.