Stoner Alison Espach Dallas Cates

Dallas Cates

Martha may have left the cult

gives her a birthday present she could have lived without

is likely a rare and comforting experience for many women

Maximus begs the detective to help find him

Stoner Alison Espach Dallas CatesWilliam 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 as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a "proper" family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied;