Stoner and palpable delight in pushing

and palpable delight in pushing boundaries

and perhaps in all American history

Inside the arena

faces a grave diagnosis

National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia

Stoner and palpable delight in pushingDiscover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. 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. And yet