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Robert Stone was the acclaimed author of nine novels, and two short story collections, plus several nonfiction works.
He won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1975 for his novel Dog Soldiers and was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and once for the PEN/Faulkner Awards. Time magazine included it in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1937 to a "family of Scottish Presbyterians and Irish Catholics who made their living as tugboat workers in New York harbor," he died in January 2015
Novels
A Hall of Mirrors (1967)
Dog Soldiers (1974)
A Flag for Sunrise (1981)
Children of Light (1986)
Outerbridge Reach (1992)
Damascus Gate (1998)
Bay of Souls (2003)
Death of the Black-Haired Girl (2013)
A Step Behind (2014)
Collections
Bear and His Daughter: Stories (1997)
Fun with Problems (2010)
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Where did you get the idea for Bay Of Souls? What inspired you? How would
you describe Bay Of Souls?
Matters of faith, possessing it, losing it, have always attracted me. Here I
wanted to follow the condition of a character who, in an irony, loses the faith
he has stubbornly maintained all his life and goes into a state of spiritual
darkness. He is drawn into a passionate love affair in which he finds a physical
and psychological gratification he has never known. He also finds himself in a
life utterly different from the one he has lived. On one of the Windward
islands, he also comes under the power of the afro-Caribbean syncretic religion
known in different places as santeria, voudon, or candomble. Giving way to his
feelings for Lara Purcell, he is forced to make his way through a spiritual
maze, accepting as he resists this sophisticated and powerful religious
structure of vaudon. He has always been drawn to danger and risk although it has
been largely absent from his life. With Lara Purcell in St. Trinity, he finds it
all. In Bay Of Souls Michael Ahearn undergoes a violent pilgrimage that
is also a test of his ability to love and to accept life. He is overwhelmed by
the pleasures, the confusions and terrors of ...
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