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Stone, Robert 1937-

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Works: 70 works in 213 publications in 19 languages and 21,729 library holdings
Genres: Adventure fiction  Sea stories  Adventure stories  Suspense fiction  Short stories, American 
Roles: Scenarist, Bibliographic antecedent, Conceptor
Classifications: ps3569.t6418, 813.54
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16 editions published between and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 2,697 libraries worldwide
Jewish and Christian terrorists unite in a scheme to blow up Islamic mosques on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The plot is discovered by Christopher Lucas, a Jewish-Catholic journalist from the U.S. writing a book on religious passions. He has a romance with an Arab nightclub dancer.
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17 editions published between and 1998 in 3 languages and held by 2,188 libraries worldwide
A novel of a man pitted against the sea, society, and himself, depicting the drama unfolding from a single fateful moment of decision.
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25 editions published between and 2010 in 8 languages and held by 2,113 libraries worldwide
A priest, a nun, an anthropologist with CIA connections, a soldier of fortune and the contraband runners he joins are all drawn into events in a Central American country on the brink of revolution.
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31 editions published between and 2010 in 7 languages and held by 1,818 libraries worldwide
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.
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6 editions published between and 2001 in English and held by 1,436 libraries worldwide
A successful screenwriter and actor, now under the influence of alcohol and drugs, goes on location to the filming of a movie he had written and is drawn to a former lover, an actress who has also fallen prey to drugs, alcohol, and her own emotional instability.
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14 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 1,291 libraries worldwide
"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, fascinating glory. An account framed by two wars, it begins with Stone's last year in the Navy and ends in Vietnam, where he was a correspondent in the days following the invasion of Laos. The narrative zips from coast to coast, from days spent in the raucous offices of Manhattan tabloids to the breathtaking beaches of Mexico, and merry times aboard the bus with Kesey and the Pranksters. These accounts of the sixties are riveting not only because Stone is a master storyteller but because he was there, in the thick of it, through all the wild times.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress
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19 editions published between and 1999 in English and Romanian and held by 946 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in English and held by 878 libraries worldwide
A volume of short works 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.
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7 editions published between and 1998 in English and held by 808 libraries worldwide
A collection of seven stories. In the title piece a poet and his grown daughter drink away the night, avoiding any mention of an incestuous relationship in their past, Miserere is on a woman who collects aborted fetuses to give them to a priest for religious burial, and Aquarius Obscured is on a talking dolphin.
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2 editions published in in English and held by 479 libraries worldwide
This novel is a study of New World hope and innocence set in an Old World of violence. The scene is Saigon in the violent years when the French were desperately trying to hold their footing in the Far East. The principal characters are a skeptical British journalist, his attractive Vietnamese mistress, and an eager young American sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission.
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8 editions published between and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 434 libraries worldwide
While becoming involved with a woman faculty member who claims to be possessed, a professor journeys to her native island of St. Trinity, where he becomes involved in a smuggling scheme.
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1 edition published in in English and held by 394 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 164 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 135 libraries worldwide
The glory, pride, horror, and cowardice that are associated with war are depicted in a classic account of a young soldier's Civil War experiences.
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3 editions published in in English and held by 68 libraries worldwide
The stories in this new collection share the signature blend of longing, violence, and black humor with which Robert Stone illuminates the dark corners of the human soul. Entire lives are laid bare with remarkable precision, in captivating prose: a screenwriter carries on a decades-long affair with a beautiful actress, whose descent into addiction he can neither turn from nor share; a bored husband picks up a mysterious woman only to find that his ego has led him woefully astray; a world-beating Silicon Valley executive receives an unwelcome guest at his mansion in the hills; a scuba dive takes uneasy newlyweds to a point of no return." "Fun with Problems showcases Stone's great gift: to pinpoint and make real the impulses - by turns violently coercive and quietly seductive - that cause us to conceal, reveal, and betray our truest selves.
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2 editions published in in English and held by 17 libraries worldwide
Author Stone talks about his stories and novels, and how the latter form allows him to better address his concerns. He goes on to discuss his writing of the "American experience," and how this has involved him in religious and political issues. He also refutes criticism that his message is that of despair.
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1 edition published in in English and held by 14 libraries worldwide
Following a brief introduction to his life and work, author Stone reads his short story, Aquarius obscured, which deals with the more destructive side of the 1960s, and a sequence of scenes from his novel, A flag for sunrise.
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1 edition published in in Dutch and held by 10 libraries worldwide
Een Amerikaanse journalist stuit in Jeruzalem heel geleidelijk op een complot tegen de Moslim-heiligdommen op de Tempelberg.
 
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Damascus Gate
Alternative Names
Stone, Robert Anthony 1937-
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