A Hall of Mirrors (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Stone
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, United States or Americans, Politics, Racism, South or Southerners, Alienation, New Orleans, Riots, Radio or radio broadcasting, Innocence
- Locales: New Orleans, LA
Winner of the William Faulkner Award for best first novel and filmed as WUSA in 1970, A Hall of Mirrors, as Stone says, takes the United States as its subject and has built into it “all . . . [Stone's] quarrels with America,” but most particularly right-wing “exploitation of the electronic media.” Some have called it a story of the dark night of the American soul, or more particularly a distillation of the disparate elements that made up the 1960's. Its title comes from Robert Lowell's poem “Children of Light,” in which the puritan children of light become...
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