Stone, Robert 1937-

Overview

Works:	143 works in 550 publications in 8 languages and 26,564 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction History Political fiction Personal narratives‡vAmerican Psychological fiction Juvenile works Sea stories Pictorial works Biography Criticism, interpretation, etc
Roles:	Producer, Scenarist, Author of introduction, Author of screenplay, Signer, Bibliographic antecedent, Conceptor, Contributor
Classifications:	PS1449.C85, 813.4

Publication Timeline

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Publications about Robert Stone

Publications by Robert Stone

Most widely held works about Robert Stone

Prime green : remembering the sixties by Robert Stone ( Book )
Sorrow's rigging the novels of Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, and Robert Stone by Gary Adelman ( )
Robert Stone by Robert Solotaroff ( Book )
Understanding Robert Stone by Gregory Stephenson ( Book )
Robert Stone--a bibliography, 1960-1992 by Ken Lopez ( Book )

Who'll stop the rain ( Visual )
Contemporary literary criticism ( )
Prime green : remembering the nineteen sixties by Robert Stone ( Book )
Interview by Toni Morrison ( Recording )
Robert Stone interview with Kay Bonetti by Robert Stone ( Recording )
Readings by Robert Stone ( Recording )
On Robert Stone and Tim O'Brien : American fiction of the Vietnam War within and beyond by Wenping Gan ( Book )
Robert Stone by Robert Stone ( Recording )
Poėtika romanov Roberta Stouna by N. V Kireeva ( Book )
Sorrow's Rigging ( )
[Miscellaneous printed material by and about Robert Stone.] by Robert Stone ( Book )
Robert Stone papers by Robert Stone ( )
Letter to Robie McCauley by Ann Beattie ( )
The library of S. Carter Burden : the Vietnam War literature collection ( Book )
Robert Stone, novelist by Robert Stone ( Recording )

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Most widely held works by Robert Stone

Damascus Gate by Robert Stone ( Book )
25 editions published between 1998 and 2014 in English and French and held by 2,727 WorldCat member 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

Outerbridge reach by Robert Stone ( Book )
27 editions published between 1992 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,616 WorldCat member 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

A flag for sunrise : a novel by Robert Stone ( Book )
47 editions published between 1977 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 2,299 WorldCat member 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

Dog soldiers, a novel by Robert Stone ( Book )
54 editions published between 1973 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,281 WorldCat member 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

Images of war by Julene Fischer ( Book )
4 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 1,767 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Includes photographs of Saigon, Khe Sanh, the Tet and Easter offensives, the antiwar movement, and withdrawl

Bay of souls by Robert Stone ( Book )
18 editions published between 2003 and 2013 in English and held by 1,713 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Becoming involved with new faculty member Lara, who claims to be possessed, professor Michael Ahern journeys to Lara's native island of St. Trinity, where he is enmeshed in a smuggling scheme

Children of light by Robert Stone ( Book )
27 editions published between 1967 and 2013 in English and held by 1,592 WorldCat member 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

Death of the black-haired girl by Robert Stone ( Book )
7 editions published between 2013 and 2014 in English and held by 1,281 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

A hall of mirrors by Robert Stone ( Book )
44 editions published between 1964 and 1999 in English and held by 1,103 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Rheinhardt, a disc jockey and failed musician, rolls into New Orleans in the aftermath of Mardi Gras looking for work and another chance in life. What he finds is a woman named Geraldine who is physically and psychically damaged by the men in her past, and a job that involves him with a right-wing political movement

Fun with problems : stories by Robert Stone ( Book )
10 editions published between 2009 and 2011 in English and held by 942 WorldCat member 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

Bear and his daughter : stories by Robert Stone ( Book )
21 editions published between 1997 and 1999 in English and held by 883 WorldCat member 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

Damascus Gate by Robert Stone ( )
10 editions published between 1998 and 2011 in English and held by 810 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Christopher Lucas, unsure of his own beliefs, is wandering through Jerusalem, working on an article about religious mania. When he meets Sonia Barnes, dusky nightclub singer, devoted Sufi and mystic, he is entranced. As Sonia helps Lucas meet some of the visionaries and gurus who fill the city, the two suddenly find that they have become pawns in a fanatical bombing plot. Its target is no less than the Temple Mount, the city's holiest site."--Container insert

The quiet American by Graham Greene ( Book )
3 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 572 WorldCat member 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

Deeds of war by James Nachtwey ( Book )
2 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 376 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Radio bikini ( Visual )
15 editions published between 1987 and 2003 in English and German and held by 270 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In July 1946 on Bikini Atoll, the United States tests two atomic bombs--code named "Operation Crossroads." This incident was the biggest nuclear catastrophe in history before Chernobyl

Dispatches by Michael Herr ( Book )
3 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 222 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
One of the greatest examples of war journalism ever written, Michael Herr's collection of dispatches from the front lines of the Vietnam War reveal with shattering impact how that war differed from any combat theatre fought before. Herr's clearheaded yet unsparing retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, capturing the unique flavor of the time and place and finding clarity in one of the most incomprehensible events in our modern era. A National Book Critics Circle finalist and highly acclaimed upon its publication, this modern classic retains its powerful resonance as America finds itself in the midst of another military quagmire

Dog soldiers by Robert Stone ( Recording )
10 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 215 WorldCat member 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

Fun with problems by Robert Stone ( )
9 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 206 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Robert Stone, author of the National Book Award winner Dog Soldiers, returns with this collection of stories and novellas involving violence, longing, black humor, and various vices

The red badge of courage by Stephen Crane ( Book )
2 editions published between 1990 and 2010 in English and held by 151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
During his service in the Civil War, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war

Death of the black-haired girl by Robert Stone ( Recording )
5 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 147 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A brilliant but careless professor at the college, Steven Brookman has reluctantly decided that for the sake of his marriage and his soul, he must extricate himself from his relationship with Maud Stack, his dazzling student, whose papers are always late and too long, but always brilliant. Maud, however, is a young woman whose passions, personal, intellectual, and social, are not easily contained or curtailed, and their union and their rift will yield tragic and long-reaching consequences

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