New Robert Stone

[Keith Davis]

Haven't read Robert Stone yet, but have been looking at "Damascus Gate".
Any other recommendations for a starting point?


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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