Robert Stone Books In Order

Novels

  1. A Hall of Mirrors (1967)
  2. Dog Soldiers (1974)
  3. A Flag for Sunrise (1981)
  4. Children of Light (1986)
  5. Outerbridge Reach (1992)
  6. Damascus Gate (1998)
  7. Bay of Souls (2003)
  8. Death of the Black-Haired Girl (2013)
  9. A Step Behind (2014)

Omnibus

  1. Dog Soldiers, a Flag for Sunrise, Outerbridge Reach (2020)

Collections

  1. Bear and His Daughter (1997)
  2. Fun with Problems (2010)

Non fiction

  1. Paths of Resistance (1989)
  2. The Eye You See With (2020)

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Robert Stone Books Overview

A Hall of Mirrors

Rheinhardt, a disk jockey and failed musician, rolls into New Orleans looking for work and another chance in life. What he finds is a woman physically and psychically damaged by the men in her past and a job that entangles him in a right wing political movement. Peopled with civil rights activists, fanatical Christians, corrupt politicians, and demented Hollywood stars, A Hall of Mirrors vividly depicts the dark side of America that erupted in the sixties. To quote Wallace Stegner, ‘Stone writes like a bird, like an angel, like a circus barker, like a con man, like someone so high on pot that he is scraping his shoes on the stars.’

Dog Soldiers

A Gripping Portrait of the 1970s Counterculture in this National Book Award Winning Novel Available for the First Time Ever on Audio! In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small time journalist named John Converse thinks he’ll find action and profit by getting involved in a big time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers and the price of survival was dangerously high. Presented unabridged on 8 CDs, read by Tom Stechschulte.

A Flag for Sunrise

An Astonishing Saga of Politics, War, and Americans Out of Place, by a National Book Award Winner! Possessed of astonishing dramatic, emotional, and philosophical resonance, A Flag for Sunrise is a novel in the grand tradition about Americans drawn into the maelstrom of a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. From the book’s inception, readers will be seized by the dangers and nightmare suspense of life lived on the rim of a political volcano. Presented unabridged on 10 CDs; narrated by Stephen Lang.

Children of Light

A searing, indelible love story of two ravaged spirits a screenwriter and an actress played out under the merciless, magnifying prism of Hollywood.

Outerbridge Reach

In this towering story about a man pitting himself against the sea, against society, and against himself, Robert Stone again demonstrates that he is ‘one of the most impressive novelists of his generation’ New York Review of Books. Inviting comparison with the great sea novels of Conrad, Melville, and Hemingway, Outerbridge Reach is also the portrait of two men and the powerful, unforgettable woman they both love and for whom they are both ready, in their very different ways, to stake everything. As the San Francisco Chronicle said, ‘Robert Stone asks questions of our time few writers could imagine and answers them in narratives few readers will ever quite forget.’

Damascus Gate

With soaring vision and profound intelligence, Robert Stone has written a harrowing, breathtaking novel about our desperate search, at any price, for the consolation of redemption and about the people who are all too willing to provide it. A violent confrontation in the Gaza Strip, a mind altering pilgrimage, a race through riot filled Jerusalem streets, a cat and mouse game in an underground maze, a desperate attempt to prevent a bomb from detonating beneath the Temple Mount Damascus Gate is an exhilarating journey through the moral and religious ambiguities that haunt the holiest of cities and its seekers, cynics, hustlers, and madmen. Set in Jerusalem, where violence, ecstasy, heresy, and salvation are all to be found, Damascus Gate is simultaneously the story of a man’s search for truth or some version of it and the story of a city where sanity is casually traded for faith.

Bay of Souls

Robert Stone’s remarkable new novel is a psychological thriller of razor sharp intensity: mysterious, erotic, and deeply readable. Michael Ahearn, a professor at a rural college, sheds his comfortable assumptions when he becomes obsessed with a new faculty member from the Caribbean, Lara Purcell. An expert in Third World politics, Lara is seductive, dangerous and in thrall, she claims, to a voodoo spirit who has taken possession of her soul. Impassioned and determined, Michael pursues Lara to her native island of St. Trinity, heedless of the political upheaval there. Together they desperately attempt to reclaim all that Lara has lost. Yet island intrigue ensnares them. Lara sacrifices herself to ritual and superstition. Michael is caught unawares in a high stakes smuggling scheme. In his feverish state of mind, the world becomes an ever shifting phantasmagoria. He is, himself, possessed. In Bay of Souls, readers will recognize the trademarks of Stone s greatest fiction: the American embroiled in Third World corruption, the diplomats and covert operatives, the idealists and opportunists. Yet here the author s sights are set inward, to a place where politics is superfluous, experience unreliable. Never before has Stone probed so powerfully the psychological depths of one man s mind. What he finds there defies expectations.

Bear and His Daughter

The stories collected in Bear and His Daughter span nearly thirty years 1969 to the present and they explore, acutely and powerfully, the humanity that unites us. In ‘Miserere,’ a widowed librarian with an unspeakable secret undertakes an unusual and grisly role in the anti abortion crusade. ‘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 together the relationship of a father and his grown daughter.

Fun with Problems

InFun with Problems,Robert Stone demonstrates once again that he is ‘one of our greatest living writers’ Los Angeles Times. The pieces in this new volume vary greatly in length some are almost novellas, others no more than a page but all share the signature blend of longing, violence, black humor, sex and drugs that has helped Stone illuminate the dark corners of the human soul. Entire lives are laid out with remarkable precision, in captivating prose: a screenwriter carries on a decades long affair with a beautiful actress, whose descent into addiction he can neither turn from nor share; a bored husband picks up a mysterious woman only to find that his ego has led him woefully astray; a world beating Silicon Valley executive receives an unwelcome guest at his mansion in the hills; a scuba dive guides uneasy newlyweds to a point of no return. Fun with Problemsshowcases Stone’s great gift: to pinpoint and make real the impulses by turns violently coercive and quietly seductive that cause us to conceal, reveal, and betray our very selves.

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