New Robert Stone

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I like Flag for Sunrise too.  Also Outerbridge Reach.



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From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: New Robert Stone


Dog Soldiers 
Flag for Sunrise, too




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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