Four americans converge on a central american banana dictatorship called tecanand each of them is clearly ready for some internal shake up. Sparkling economical prose thats equally indebted to dime novels and mid century amercian literary fiction amoral characters whose words cant be trusted and everywhere the specter of the vietnam war a never ending debacle that seems to have sucked the morality of everyone who experienced it.
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Its title derives from emily dickinsons question sunrise hast thou a flag for mean unspoken plea by stones characters as they pursue something beyond themselves a new vision to salute.
A flag for sunrise robert stone. Robert stone was the author of seven novels. Dog soldiers received a national book award and a flag for sunrise won both the los angeles times book prize and the penfaulkner award. An action novel well garnished with scraps of wisdom and observation.
Author roland merullo recommends stones a flag for sunrise a rich depiction of central america in the turbulent 70s. A flag for sunrise is the best novel ive read since dostoevsky escaped from omsk new york times an ambitious adventure story about modern imperialism and modern morality. An astonishing saga of politics war and americans out of place by a national book award winner.
You might also say that a flag for sunrise is just robert stone. His story collection bear and his daughter was a finalist for the pulitzer prize and his memoir prime green was published in 2006. Graham greene and hemingway are this books tutelary gods sunday times stone is his own man indentured to nobody in his ability to play on our nerves.
Frank holliwell an anthropologist suffering from anomie has been invited down by the tecan national university to give a lectureand hes also been asked to do some snooping around by cia buddies hed known from vietnam days. A hall of mirrors dog soldiers winner of the national book award a flag for sunrise children of light outerbridge reach damascus gate and bay of souls. Robert stones first novel a hall of mirrors won a william faulkner foundation award.
It is now clear that stone is the strongest novelist of the post vietnam era newsweek. In the eighties and nineties robert stone regularly got into the new york times best books of the year including dog soldiers a flag for sunrise and outerbrige reach and although it has been a while since a stones book has generated more buzz his acclaim in those decades as one of the major american writers of his generations is greatly deserved. Possessed of astonishing dramatic emotional and philosophical resonance a flag for sunrise is a novel in the grand tradition about americans drawn into the maelstrom of a small central american country on the brink of revolution.
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