Bay of Souls (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Stone
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: About 2002
- Setting: A college town in rural Minnesota and St. Trinity, a Caribbean island
- Principal Characters: Michael Ahearn, Kristin Ahearn, Paul Ahearn, Lara Purcell, Norman Civic, Roger Hyde, Liz McKie, Colonel Junot, Hilda
- Genres: Long fiction, Novel
- Subjects: Wives, Marriage, Twenty-first century, Adultery, Islands, Drugs, Metaphysics, Rites or ceremonies, Smuggling or smugglers, Middle age, Minnesota, Soul
- Locales: Caribbean, Minnesota
Since 1967, Robert Stone has written consistently high quality fiction that straddles the line between thriller and literary novel. Stone’s characters often search for escape from themselves and their pasts in foreign climates and drugs, whereupon they become increasingly unmoored in an unstable political landscape that mirrors their mental derangement. Stone began his career dropping LSD with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and his work has had a psychedellic edge ever since, often with prophetic overtones.
His first novel, Hall of Mirrors (1966), anticipates the...
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