{"product_id":"9780385541602","title":"Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eBell, Madison Smartt\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDoubleday\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e3\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first and definitive biography of one of the great American novelists of the postwar era, the author of \u003ci\u003eDog Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e A Flag for Sunrise\u003c\/i\u003e, and a penetrating critic of American power, innocence, and corruption\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Stone (1937-2015), probably the only postwar American writer to draw favorable comparisons to Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, and Joseph Conrad, lived a life rich in adventure, achievement, and inner turmoil. He grew up rough on the streets of New York, the son of a mentally troubled single mother. After his Navy service in the fifties, which brought him to such locales as pre-Castro Havana, the Suez Crisis, and Antarctica, he studied writing at Stanford, where he met Ken Kesey and became a core member of the gang of Merry Pranksters. The publication of his superb New Orleans novel\u003ci\u003e, Hall of Mirrors \u003c\/i\u003e(1967), initiated a succession of dark-humored novels that investigated the American experience in Vietnam\u003ci\u003e (Dog Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e, 1974, which won the National Book Award), Central America (\u003ci\u003eA Flag for Sunrise\u003c\/i\u003e, 1981), and Jerusalem on the eve of the millennium (\u003ci\u003eDamascus Gate,\u003c\/i\u003e 1998).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn acclaimed novelist himself, Madison Smartt Bell was a close friend and longtime admirer of Robert Stone. His authorized and deeply researched biography is both intimate and objective, a rich and unsparing portrait of a complicated, charismatic, and haunted man and a sympathetic reading of his work that will help to secure Stone's place in the pantheon of major American writers.","brand":"Doubleday","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48688021668095,"sku":"9780385541602","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780385541602_s600x595.jpg?v=1781541912","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780385541602","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}