Newsweek, April 28th, 1997
BEAR AND HIS DAUGHTER by Robert Stone (Houghton Mifflin. $21.95). Robert Stone may be one of the best, most visceral writers we've got, but he can get on your nerves. Stone's first collection of stories finds the novelist hard-charging into harm's way with characters who are inward and seething--and so dislocated from the ordinary stream of life that the drug trip they're often on seems redundant. Several stories are creepy and riveting: a counselor at a state hospital is spooked by a patient's dream and begins dangerously unraveling, a librarian steals aborted fetu...
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