Stoner Alison Espach is likely a rare and

is likely a rare and comforting experience for many women

gives her a birthday present she could have lived without

"1950s Hollywood: Every actress wants to be Salome

Martha may have left the cult

Stoner Alison Espach is likely a rare andWilliam 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;