Joel TM Bamford

This completed novel reads itself with assurance. A whole lifetime of little self awareness, pleasure and an undirected drive. One taste of closeness, friendship with fellow students, leaving no ability to recapture or develop similar joy. Strong but failed attempts at love of wife and child. Fortunately for Stoner and readers vibrancy flares despite more bumps in the road. His course made this octogenarian see one human's life in full darkness and color.