New Robert Stone

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includes excerpt. subject matter/description doesn't seem all that
interesting.

http://www.amazon.com/Death-Black-Haired-Girl-Robert-Stone/dp/0618386238/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365783949&sr=1-3&keywords=robert+stone

In an elite college in a once-decaying New England city, Steven Brookman
has come to a decision. A brilliant but careless professor, he has
determined that for the sake of his marriage, and his soul, he must extract
himself from his relationship with Maud Stack, his electrifying student,
whose papers are always late and too long yet always incandescent. But Maud
is a young woman whose passions are not easily contained or curtailed, and
their union will quickly yield tragic and far-reaching consequences.

As in Robert Stone’s most acclaimed novels, here he conjures a complex
moral universe where nothing is black and white, even if the
characters—always complicated, always compelling—wish it were. The stakes
of Brookman and Maud’s relationship prove higher than either one could have
anticipated, pitting individuals against one another and against the
institutions meant to protect them.

*Death of the Black-Haired Girl* is an irresistibly compelling tale of
infidelity, accountability, the allure of youth, the promise of absolution,
and the notion that madness is everywhere, in plain sight.
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