Volume 28, Number 19 · December 3, 1981
Intruders
By Richard Poirier
A Flag for Sunrise
by Robert Stone
Knopf, 439 pp., $13.95
This is the third novel by Robert Stone—A Hall of Mirrors was a Houghton Mifflin Fellowship Book in 1967, Dog Soldiers won the National Book Award in 1975—and it is even more' relentlessly violent and cataclysmic than either. Here, as in the earlier works, the characters who find themselves joined at the end of the book in savagery, betrayal, and death are at the beginning mostly unknown to one another and not likely to meet in the normal course of things. It is as if each person were in a different story, pursuing a different destiny, so that only belatedly, and at a new extremity of disaster, will he ever discover, as one of them puts it, 'the diagram of events toward which the life of adventure was propelling him.'
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