Alana Hill’s Reviews > Stoner > Status Update

"In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief…Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion, he saw it as an act of becoming." (195)