Honor belated …

… A ‘Perfect’ American Novel Strikes Gold Overseas. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Even though Stoner has been around for nearly a half-century, it remained largely under the radar, receiving praise from the likes of Irving Howe in The New Republic in 1966 and Dan Wakefield in Ploughshares in 1981, but never catching on with the American reading public. That changed in 2006 when New York Review Books Classics reissued it and media attention picked up, first in the U.S. and then abroad.