Death of the black-haired girl
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Fast-paced [and] riveting . . . Stone is one of our transcendently great American novelists." -- Madison Smartt Bell "Brilliant." -- Washington PostAt an elite college in a once-decaying New England city, Steven Brookman has come...
| Main Author: | Stone, Robert, 1937- |
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| Format: | Downloads eBook Books eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2013.
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| Summary: |
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Fast-paced [and] riveting . . . Stone is one of our transcendently great American novelists." -- Madison Smartt Bell "Brilliant." -- Washington PostAt 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 end his relationship with Maud Stack, his electrifying student, whose papers are always late yet always incandescent. But Maud is a young woman whose passions are not easily curtailed, and their union will quickly yield tragic and far-reaching consequences. Death of the Black-Haired Girl is an irresistible tale of infidelity, accountability, the allure of youth, the promise of absolution, and the notion that madness is everywhere, in plain sight. "At once unsparing and generous in its vision of humanity, by turns propulsive and poetic, Death of the Black-Haired Girl is wise, brave, and beautifully just." -- Boston Globe "Unsettling and tightly wrought -- and a worthy cautionary tale about capital-C consequences." -- Entertainment Weekly "A taut, forceful, lacerating novel, full of beautifully crafted language." -- Los Angeles Review of Books |
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1 online resource |
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| ISBN: |
9780547760384 |
| Author Notes: |
His first novel, A Hall of Mirrors, won a William Faulkner Foundation award for best first novel of 1967 and was adapted into a movie entitled WUSA starring Paul Newman. His other books include Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, Damascus Gate, Bear and His Daughter, Fun with Problems, Bay of Souls, and Death of the Black-Haired Girl. He also wrote a memoir entitled Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties. He won numerous awards including the National Book Award in 1975 for Dog Soldier, which was adapted into a movie entitled Who'll Stop the Rain starring Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld, and a PEN/Faulkner Award for A Flag for Sunrise. He died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on January 10, 2015 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) |