Talk:Stoner (novel)

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This article isn't fit to be listed under Simple English.
This is a wonderful book, beautifully written, and this is the standard of writing it receives?

"Stoner's career begins just before World War I, which he teaches through with constant application to his responsibilities which makes him popular advising English majors, until he is almost destroyed during the depression by English Department politics and demoted to teaching freshman and sophomore English survey courses. Although he appears to be an undistinguished English professor, he is fighting for his very existence, every day, much as he did back on the farm. Although his career may seem largely uneventful at a drab Midwestern university, underneath his emotions are in constant flux, dealing with his unstable wife Edith and her attempts to isolate him from the affections of their only child, Grace. He falls in love with a younger instructor at the university, Katherine Driscoll, who returns his feelings, and also has to deal with the effects of a controversial affair in a much more repressive time."

Is this subtle vandalism or something? It reads as if it were written by a twelve year old, and not an especially bright one. I'd change it but the people who spend all their lives on wikipedia seem to prefer this sort of thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.28.128.188 (talk) 23:07, 30 June 2015 (UTC)


 * A movie based on this book is in the process of being made by the company Film4. There is very little information besides that. If it does end up being made and there are more sources about it, it should be added to this page.

Sgeekie (talk) 01:48, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Myers quote
Reception section -> paragraph 4. DG Myers' quote is pulled from a secondary source, Brian Appleyard. I had no luck finding Myers' original work with that phrase in it. Is anyone else able to find it? KalPence (talk) 02:13, 2 November 2015 (UTC)