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Conversations with Robert Stone
- Title
- Conversations with Robert Stone / edited by William Heath.
- Author
- Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
- Publication
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2016]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-13819 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Heath, William, 1942-
- Description
- xxiii, 214 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Ever since A Hall of Mirrors depicted the wild side of New Orleans in the 1960s, Robert Stone (1937--2015) has situated novels where America has shattered and the action is at a pitch. In Dog Soldiers, he covered the Vietnam War and drug smuggling. A Flag for Sunrise captured revolutionary discontent in Central America. Children of Light exposed the crass values of Hollywood. Outerbridge Reach depicted how existential angst can lead to a longing for heroic transcendence. The clash of religions in Jerusalem drove Damascus Gate. Traditional town-gown tensions amid twenty-first-century culture wars propelled Death of the Black-Haired Girl. Stone's reputation rests on his mastery of the craft of fiction. These interviews are replete with insights about the creative process as he responds with disarming honesty to probing questions about his major works. Stone also has fascinating things to say about his remarkable life -- schizophrenic mother, a stint in the navy, his involvement with Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, and his presence at the creation of the counterculture. From the publication of A Hall of Mirrors until his death in 2015, Stone was a major figure in American literature."--
- Series Statement
- Literary conversations series
- Uniform Title
- Literary conversations series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Interviews.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-13819
- ISBN
- 9781496808912
- 1496808916
- LCCN
- 2016020065
- 40026606396
- OCLC
- 948826129
- Author
- Stone, Robert, 1937-2015, interviewee.
- Title
- Conversations with Robert Stone / edited by William Heath.
- Publisher
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Literary conversations seriesLiterary conversations series.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-2099
- Added Author
- Heath, William, 1942- editor, interviewer.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40026606396
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-13819