New Robert Stone
rich
richard.romeo at gmail.com
Fri Apr 12 23:07:46 CDT 2013
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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