Volume 44, Number 15 · October 9, 1997
Desperate Characters
By Thomas R. Edwards
Bear and His Daughter: Stories
by Robert Stone
Houghton Mifflin, 222 pp., $24.00
Of the novelists who came into their own in the eventful, scary Sixties, Robert Stone remains one of the most serious and truthful. At first the violent worlds he described may have seemed marginal and extreme, but time would show how close they were to the American grain. Bear and His Daughter is his first collection of stories, and their dates are not given. The dust jacket says they were written 'between 1969 and the present,' and they help us understand better a powerful writer whose career deserves more attention than it has got.
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