New Robert Stone

[Ian Livingston]

Strong review. Makes me want to read it.


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:29 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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