Ebook {Epub PDF} Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone by Madison Smartt Bell

Robert Stone () was said by leading literary critics of our time to be one of our most important novelists. Child of Light is Madison Smartt Bell’s recently published, thought provoking, beautifully told authorized biography of Stone. It is a tapestry of an artist’s life from which his art cannot be unwoven without unraveling the whole/5(31). child of light: a biography of robert stone by madison smartt bell. new york: doubleday. pages. $  · In the preface to Child of Light, his biography of novelist Robert Stone, Madison Smartt Bell describes Stone as a man who “confronted the world with the bright, acidic irony of an extraordinarily perceptive, bitterly disappointed idealist.”It’s a vivid and precise summary of the complex artist who emerges in this comprehensive book, which follows Stone from his birth to a single.

Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone Madison Smartt Bell. Doubleday, $35 (p) ISBN Buy this book. Biographer and novelist Bell (Freedom's Gate. An acclaimed novelist himself, Madison Smartt Bell was a close friend and longtime admirer of Robert Stone. His fully authorized and deeply researched biography is both intimate and objective, a rich and unsparing portrait of a complicated, charismatic, and haunted man, and a sympathetic reading of his work that will help to secure Stone's. Reading "Child of Light," a revealing new biography of Stone by the novelist Madison Smartt Bell, Stone's distrust begins to make sense. He was not inherently a wild man, but he attracted.

In the biography “Child of Light,” Madison Smartt Bell captures every aspect of Stone’s contradictory nature, especially his work ethic. Robert Stone () was said by leading literary critics of our time to be one of our most important novelists. Child of Light is Madison Smartt Bell’s recently published, thought provoking, beautifully told authorized biography of Stone. It is a tapestry of an artist’s life from which his art cannot be unwoven without unraveling the whole. CHILD OF LIGHT. A BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT STONE. by Madison Smartt Bell ‧RELEASE DATE: Ma. Comprehensive life of the late novelist Robert Stone (), victim and chronicler of an excessive era. “Nothing is free.”. So, writes novelist Bell (Behind the Moon, , etc.), ran a mantra of Stone’s.