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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 5x1x7; [CRITICISM]. Stephenson, Gregory. "Understanding Robert Stone." Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. English language. Hardcover in jacket. 7.25 x 5.25 x 1 in. 18 x 13 x 2.5 cm. xiv, 261 pp. Erased prices in pencil on free front endpaper, smudging. Slight abrasion on edge of page block. Text clean. Very Good. ISBN: 9781570034626. "A strong case for Stone as an articulate and passionate moralist; In this guide to the fiction of Robert Stone, Gregory Stephenson introduces readers to a novelist of popular appeal and critical acclaim whom he describes as an anomaly among contemporary American writers-an author independent of literary fashions, unaffiliated with groups or movements. In this critical survey, Stephenson identifies the qualities that separate Stone from his peers and have brought him accolades such as the National Book Award, earning him a place of enduring significance in the American canon. Stephenson provides close readings of Stone's novels and short stories, including A Hall of Mirrors, Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, and Damascus Gate. He traces the combination of a stark, hard-boiled realism with the hallucinatory and mystical aspects of Stone's writing. His examination of Stone's attention to character, imagery, and figures of speech stands beside his suggestion that Stone's corpus reveals a coherent, evolving vision of moral, psychological, political, and metaphysical concerns."
