Книга: Stone Robert «Bay of Souls»

Bay of Souls

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Michael Ahearn is a loving father, vaguely discontented husband and professor at a mediocre rural college. Lara Purcell, meanwhile, is an expert in third world politics, newly arrived on the campus from the Caribbean. Michael finds himself inexorably drawn to her, his obsession fuelled by their mutual attraction and quickly spiralling into an affair. When Lara flees to her native island of St. Trinity, Michael follows, heedless of the political upheaval there. Together he and Lara find themselves ensnared by island intrigues, and while Lara sacrifices herself to ritual and superstition, Michael is caught unawares in a high-stakes smuggling scheme. Bay Of Souls is the story of a naive academic unexpectedly embroiled in third world corruption, of diplomats and covert operatives, of idealists and opportunists, of a wild and dangerous passion. Robert Stone paints a terrifying yet magical picture of a place where experience proves unreliable and carefully wrought certainties are violently overturned.

Издательство: "Macmillan Publishers" (2004)

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Stone, Robert

▪ American author
in full  Robert Anthony Stone 
born Aug. 21, 1937, New York, N.Y., U.S.

      American author of fiction about individuals in conflict with the decaying late 20th-century Western societies in which they live.

      Stone served in the U.S. Navy before attending New York (1958–59) and Stanford (1962–64) universities. He wrote advertising copy and newspaper articles and became friends with such writers as Jack Kerouac (Kerouac, Jack) and Ken Kesey. A Hall of Mirrors (1967), his first novel, is set in New Orleans, Louisiana, and revolves around a right-wing radio station and its chaotic “Patriotic Revival”; Stone adapted his novel for the screenplay of the film WUSA (1970). His second novel, Dog Soldiers (1974), concerns the legacy of corruption of the Vietnam War. The novel won the 1975 National Book Award, and Stone cowrote the screenplay for the film based on it, Who'll Stop the Rain? (1978).

      In the late 1970s Stone visited Central America, the setting of his novel A Flag for Sunrise (1981), about four individuals in a corrupt, poverty-stricken country ripe for revolution. His novel Children of Light (1986) features a debauched screenwriter and a schizophrenic actress, both in decline. Stone's fifth novel, Outerbridge Reach (1992), was a well-received story of a foundering marriage and an around-the-world sailboat race. Later works by Stone include Helping (1993) and Bear and His Daughters: Stories (1997).

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Источник: Stone, Robert

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