Bear and His Daughter
Robert Stone
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Éditeur:
Open Road Media
Open Road Media
Protection:
Filigrane
Filigrane
Année de parution:
1998
1998
ISBN-13:
9780547630519
Description:
<DIV><B>From a National Book Award winner, “a volume of short stories that belongs alongside Raymond Carver . . . brilliant, moving, often gloriously funny” (<I>The San Francisco Chronicle</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> Spanning nearly thirty years in the career of the <I>New York Times</I>–bestselling author of <I>Dog Soldiers</I>, the stories collected here explore, acutely and powerfully, the humanity that unites us.<BR />  <BR /> In “Miserere,” a widowed librarian with an unspeakable secret undertakes an unusual and grisly role in the anti-abortion crusade. In his classic story “Helping,” the author examines a moment of climactic confrontation in the life of Elliot, a therapist beset by his own demons. “Under the Pitons” is the harrowing story of a reluctant participant in a drug-running scheme and the grim and unexpected consequences of his involvement. The title story is a riveting account of the tangled lines that weave the relationship of a father and his grown daughter.<BR />  <BR /> In these stories, Robert Stone’s characters tug at the edges of experience, laying bare the truths that keep us alive.<BR />  <BR /> “Stone, one of contemporary fiction’s big talents, probes his characters to the existential core. At stake in these dazzling stories is nothing less than his characters’ souls.” —<I>People</I><BR />  <BR /> “The landscapes of drug addiction and war and its aftermath are depicted with rueful wit and furious intensity in these seven strongly imagined tales. . . . Combining Hemingway-like vigor with Kafkaesque despair . . . Stone has few contemporary peers, and no superiors.” —<I>Kirkus Reviews</I></DIV>
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