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Bay of Souls: A Novel

By: Robert Stone

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: April 2003

Seller ID: 110190

ISBN: 0395963494

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Robert Stone's remarkable new novel is a psychological thriller of razor-sharp intensity: mysterious, erotic, and deeply readable.
Michael Ahearn, a professor at a rural college, sheds his comfortable assumptions when he becomes obsessed with a new faculty member from the Caribbean, Lara Purcell. An expert in Third World politics, Lara is seductive, dangerous -- and in thrall, she claims, to a voodoo spirit who has taken possession of her soul.
Impassioned and determined, Michael pursues Lara to her native island of St. Trinity, heedless of the political upheaval there. Together they des...
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Best American Short Stories 1992

By: STONE, ROBERT, KENISON, KATRINA

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: November 1992

Edition: 78

Seller ID: 281115

ISBN: 0395593530

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

DAY HIKES IN THE GRAND TETONS AND JACKSON HOLE WYOMING, 2nd Edition

By: Stone, Robert

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Ics Books: September 1996

Edition: 2

Seller ID: 139619

ISBN: 1573420026

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Fun with Problems

By: Stone, Robert

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: January 2010

Seller ID: 271002

ISBN: 0618386254

Condition: Used - Very Good

In Fun with Problems, Robert Stone demonstrates once again that he is "one of our greatest living writers" (Los Angeles Times). The pieces in this new volume vary greatly in length--some are almost novellas, others no more than a page--but all share the signature blend of longing, violence, black humor, sex and drugs that has helped Stone illuminate the dark corners of the human soul. Entire lives are laid out with remarkable precision, in captivating prose: a screenwriter carries on a decades-long affair with a beautiful actress, whose descent into addiction he can neithe...
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Fun with Problems

By: Robert Stone

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: September 2010

Seller ID: 162387

ISBN: 0547394535

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In Fun with Problems, Robert Stone demonstrates once again that he is "one of our greatest living writers" (Los Angeles Times). The stories in this new collection share the signature blend of longing, violence, and black humor with which 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 ha...
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Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition (Music in American Life)

By: Robert Stone

Price: $14.98

Publisher: University of Illinois Press: August 2010

Seller ID: 83758

ISBN: 0252077431

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

In this book, Robert L. Stone follows the sound of steel guitar into the music-driven Pentecostal worship of two related churches: the House of God and the Church of the Living God. A rare outsider who has gained the trust of members and musicians inside the church, Stone uses nearly two decades of research, interviews, and fieldwork to tell the story of a vibrant musical tradition that straddles sacred and secular contexts. Most often identified with country and western bands, steel guitar is almost unheard of in African American churches--except for the House of God and the Church of the Liv...
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