Robert Stone

Three people caught in the world of drug dealing attempt to realize their idle dreams

Dog Soldiers

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."

A Hall of Mirrors

A Flag for Sunrise is a novel of Americans drawn into the maelstrom of Tecan, a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. At a mission on the coast a priest is lapsing into alcoholic mysticism, while a young American nun is veering towards commitment to the cause. In a bar in Brooklyn, Frank Holliwell is lunching with an old CIA friend who is begging for a favour. On the Tex–Mex border, Pablo, a Coast Guard deserter, loco on speed, is about to take a job carrying mysterious contraband to Tecan. As these lives converge, as this small, crowded world erupts, the novel builds to an electrifying climax. ‘Hold on to your tricorn hat, or your cruciform, or your Uzi . . . Mr Stone kicks the brain around; we live in heresy; Satan prevails. A Flag for Sunrise is the best novel I’ve read since Dostoevsky escaped from Omsk’ New York Times ‘Destined to be one of the books that will justify our time at the bar of literary history’ New Republic ‘An ambitious adventure story about modern imperialism and modern morality . . . an action novel well garnished with scraps of wisdom and observation; Graham Greene and Hemingway are this book’s tutelary gods’ Sunday Times ‘Stone is his own man, indentured to nobody in his ability to play on our nerves . . it is now clear that Stone is the strongest novelist of the post-Vietnam era’ Newsweek

A Flag for Sunrise

In a novel of political intrigue and religious fanaticism set in Jerusalem, an expatriate American journalist becomes drawn into duplicity on both sides of the Israeli-Arab conflict

Damascus Gate

Ursula K. Le Guin

Marilynne Robinson

Margaret Atwood

Wallace Stegner

Jeanette Winterson

Russell Banks

Selected from thirty years' worth of lectures hosted by Literary Arts in Portland, presents commentary from such popular authors as Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, and E.L. Doctorow on why they write and their creative processes.

Great Authors on how and why We Write

The World Split Open

Abandoned by his wife, Gordon needs something more - love. Love in the shape of Lu Anne. Following her to Mexico where she is filming a movie he's scripted, it doesn't matter to Gordon that Lu Anne is fighting for survival too, and that Gordon may push her over the edge.

Children of Light

A volume of short works by the National Book Award-winning author of Dog Soldiers includes the stories of a screenwriter's decades-long affair with a drug-addicted actress, a Silicon Valley executive who receives an unwelcome guest and a scuba diver who guides uneasy newlyweds to a point of no return.

Stories

Fun with Problems

A novel of a man pitted against the sea, society, and himself, depicting the drama unfolding from a single fateful moment of decision.

Outerbridge Reach

From the award-winning author of "A Flag for Sunrise" and "Children of Light" comes a collection of stories spanning nearly 30 years--from 1969 to the present--that explore the humanity that unites people. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Bear and His Daughter

Alan Andres

The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age

Chasing the Moon

Madison Smartt Bell

Selected Nonfiction

Eye You See With

Prologue : July 16, 1969 -- A place beyond the sky (1903-1950) -- The man who sold the moon (1951-1960) -- The New Frontier (1961-1963) -- Managing the unmanageable (1964-1966) -- Earthrise (1967-1968) -- All engines running -- The final frontier -- Epilogue : after a few more revolutions of the sun.

The People, the Politics, and the Promise that Launched America Into the Space Age

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. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A Novel

A collection of short stories includes "Miserere," in which a widowed and childless librarian becomes an avid participant in the anti-abortion movement, and the title story, about the relationship between a father and his growing daughter

A novel about going to sea and the difficulty of trying to find a way back again. If one half of the characters live their secret, interior lives apart from society, then the other half are looking for their own ways out: drugs, murder, revolution, betrayal and infidelity

"A memoir of America's most turbulent, whimsical decade. From the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in all its weird, innocent, fasci

Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties

Graham Greene

Quiet American

Hoping to save his marriage by ending an illicit affair with an incandescent but difficult student, college professor Steven Brookman discovers that the young woman's passions are not easily curtailed and that their relationship has more complicated ramifications than either anticipated. By the National Book Award-winning author of Damascus Gate. 50,000 first printing.

Death of the Black-haired Girl

In the Central American country of Tecan, Americans, terrorists, revolutionaries, counter-revolutionaries, imported agents, and common men and women become involved in a maelstrom of upheaval, terror, and destruction

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