Publishers Weekly, February 3rd, 1997
Stories Robert Stone. Houghton Mifflin, $21.95 (240p) ISBN 0-395-63652-3 Vividly imagined scenes and some startling images convey brooding questions of existence in Stone's first short-story collection, which offers pieces written over a span of three decades. In each of these seven tales (all but the title story previously published), the main characters are absorbed in individual torments, frequently alcohol-fueled, yet all yearn to reach outside themselves to know their place in the universe. In "Miserere," a middle-aged librarian runs from her grief over the deaths of her husband and four...
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