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stor of three young Americans who arrive in a tired, littered New Orleans at the end of Mardi Gras in 1962 Chance brings them together but the circumstances that connect them plays havoc with their lives.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin
- Publication date1966
- ISBN 10 1125691956
- ISBN 13 9781125691953
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages409
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Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966
ISBN 10: 1125691956
ISBN 13: 9781125691953
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Seller: Remarks Used Books, Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award Novel. 409pp. Grey cloth spine, black boards, black titles. Clean & tight hardcover, unread, in Very Good+ condition (bump on lower front spine), o/w intact & unmarked. "This is the story of three young Americans who arrive in a tired, littered New Orleans at the end of Mardi Gras in 1962. Rheinhardt, the disc jockey, ex-musician, broke and alcoholic, rolls in on a bus looking for a job. Geraldine, wandering daughter of West Virginia, comes by way of Texas on a banana truck, with a still raw cut all the way down the side of her face, the parting gift of her last man. Morgan Rainey, devoutly religious son of Southern gentility, returns from South America with a confused but persistent sense of his mission toward suffering humanity. [] It is something like chance that brings Rheinhardt and Geraldine together, and coincidence that Morgan Rainey takes a room in the same run-down building. But the circumstances that connect these three are more than chance, and have to do with the tides of American society, with the forces that play havoc with lives gone adrift in America's mid-stream. [] The world into which Rheinhardt, Geraldine and Rainey drop is that rootless one of the all-night tenth-run movie, the mission-house lunch, the corner where everyone has to move on, buddy. It is the dominion of a man named Bingamon who is sweeping up power by snagging the drifters in his web of influence. Rheinhardt's glib tongue gets him a job on Bingamon's radio station, and Morgan Rainey, as a social worker, becomes an unwitting pawn in Bingamon's plan. In a climax of terrible force, a right-wing political rally organized by Bingamon turns into a mindless stampede in which Rheinhardt's tenuous love for Geraldine is trampled, and in which Geraldine and Rainey are swept permanently under. At the end only Rheinhardt is left, alone, to move on to yet another American scene. [] The world of Rheinhardt, Geraldine and Rainey is a hall of mirrors, and their experience becomes the American experience rendered as nightmare. The triumph of this novel lies in Robert Stone's vision of that nightmare as the starkest and most prophetic of realities." [jacket copy] "Stone . . . is a remarkable writer. His voice and his world are his own. Lowry comes to mind because A HALL OF MIRRORS has the most compelling surface, the densest network of detail of any book I have read since Under the Volcano. Stone's language is a joy. Rich yet unobtrusive, self-effacing but in complete control . . ."--Ivan Gold, New York Times Book Review. "One of the two best first novels I have ever read, the other being Bill Styron's Lie Down in Darkness. Stone has the kind of psychological rightness that Dreiser at his best had. There is an almost unprecedented quality of reality in this book and in all its people . . . Stone writes like a bird, like an angel, like a circus barker, like a con man, like someone so high on pot that he is scraping his shoes on the stars."--Wallace Stegner. Very Good+ hardcover w/brilliant corners (but for bump on lower spine) & crisp deckle edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a VG+ intact (not clipped) jacket w/no printed price (possibly a book club edition?) & a back cover featuring a casual photo of the young author. Seller Inventory # RUB2781
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Many copies of this book are available online, but copies in mint condition appear to be very rare. Here is one; book and jacket both look fresh and brand-new. CAUTION: some of the vendors offering this book online do not actually have a copy in stock; their description of the book s condition is therefore guesswork. Buy from a vendor who does have the book and can attest that it is described accurately. Seller Inventory # ABE-1717529457859
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