NP--New Robert Stone Novel--Bay of Souls

[Richard Romeo]

hey--stone's new book sounds tasty. stone is slowly
becoming my 2nd fav. novelist after Mr. P. 

peace in 2003 (we probably won't get much)
rich

Robert Stone’s remarkable new novel is a psychological
thriller of razor-sharp intensity: mysterious, erotic,
and deeply readable.
Michael Ahearn, a professor at a rural college, sheds
his comfortable assumptions when he becomes obsessed
with a new faculty member from the Caribbean, Lara
Purcell. An expert in Third World politics, Lara is
seductive, dangerous — and in thrall, she claims, to a
voodoo spirit who has taken possession of her soul.
Impassioned and determined, Michael pursues Lara to
her native island of St. Trinity, heedless of the
political upheaval there. Together they desperately
attempt to reclaim all that Lara has lost. Yet island
intrigue ensnares them. Lara sacrifices herself to
ritual and superstition. Michael is caught unawares in
a high-stakes smuggling scheme. In his feverish state
of mind, the world becomes an ever-shifting
phantasmagoria. He is, himself, possessed.
In Bay of Souls, readers will recognize the trademarks
of Stone’s greatest fiction: the American embroiled in
Third World corruption, the diplomats and covert
operatives, the idealists and opportunists. Yet here
the author’s sights are set inward, to a place where
politics is superfluous, experience unreliable. Never
before has Stone probed so powerfully the
psychological depths of one man’s mind. What he finds
there defies expectations

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