Volume 33, Number 6 · April 10, 1986

Among the Freaks

By Al Alvarez
Children of Light
by Robert Stone

Knopf, 258 pp., $17.95

In just four novels in almost twenty years Robert Stone has established a world and style and tone of voice of great originality and authority. It is a world without grace or comfort, bleak, dangerous, and continually threatening:



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