Bear and His Daughter

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Publication Year:
1998

ISBN-13: 9780547630519

<DIV><B>From a National Book Award winner, &ldquo;a volume of short stories that belongs alongside Raymond Carver&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.&#160;brilliant, moving, often gloriously funny&rdquo; (<I>The San Francisco Chronicle</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> Spanning nearly thirty years in the career of the <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>Dog Soldiers</I>, the stories collected here explore, acutely and powerfully, the humanity that unites us.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> In &ldquo;Miserere,&rdquo; a widowed librarian with an unspeakable secret undertakes an unusual and grisly role in the anti-abortion crusade. In his classic story &ldquo;Helping,&rdquo; the author examines a moment of climactic confrontation in the life of Elliot, a therapist beset by his own demons. &ldquo;Under the Pitons&rdquo; is the harrowing story of a reluctant participant in a drug-running scheme and the grim and unexpected consequences of his involvement. The title story is a riveting account of the tangled lines that weave the relationship of a father and his grown daughter.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> In these stories, Robert Stone&rsquo;s characters tug at the edges of experience, laying bare the truths that keep us alive.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;Stone, one of contemporary fiction&rsquo;s big talents, probes his characters to the existential core. At stake in these dazzling stories is nothing less than his characters&rsquo; souls.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>People</I><BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;The landscapes of drug addiction and war and its aftermath are depicted with rueful wit and furious intensity in these seven strongly imagined tales.&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. Combining Hemingway-like vigor with Kafkaesque despair&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. Stone has few contemporary peers, and no superiors.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Kirkus Reviews</I></DIV>