Stoner
The greatest rediscovered classic of recent years, Stoner is a literary legend.
This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read.
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.