{"product_id":"bay-of-souls-a-novel-isbn-9780618446742","title":"Bay Of Souls: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Stone’s remarkable novel is a psychological thriller of razor-sharp intensity: mysterious, erotic, and deeply readable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Michael Ahearn, a professor at a rural college, sheds his comfortable assumptions when he becomes obsessed with a new faculty member from the Caribbean, Lara Purcell. An expert in Third World politics, Lara is seductive, dangerous — and in thrall, she claims, to a voodoo spirit who has taken possession of her soul.\u003cbr\u003e Impassioned and determined, Michael pursues Lara to her native island of St. Trinity, heedless of the political upheaval there. Together they desperately attempt to reclaim all that Lara has lost. Yet island intrigue ensnares them. Lara sacrifices herself to ritual and superstition. Michael is caught unawares in a high-stakes smuggling scheme. In his feverish state of mind, the world becomes an ever-shifting phantasmagoria. He is, himself, possessed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Bay of Souls, readers will recognize the trademarks of Stone’s greatest fiction: the American embroiled in Third World corruption, the diplomats and covert operatives, the idealists and opportunists. Yet here the author’s sights are set inward, to a place where politics is superfluous, experience unreliable. Never before has Stone probed so powerfully the psychological depths of one man’s mind. What he finds there defies expectations.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eFaulknerian intensity and a narrative economy reminiscent of Hemingway distinguish Stone's bloodcurdling seventh outing... A small masterpiece, possessed of a relentless lucidity that recalls Conrad and Graham Greene at their peeks. Stone's best yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKirkus Reviews, Starred\u003cbr\u003eA tight brillianty observed tale.... A novel of bold prose and subtle perceptions, a small, hard gem from a master writer.\u003cp\u003ePublishers Weekly, Starred\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStone is at his best here, and that's very, very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLibrary Journal Starred\u003cbr\u003eIt's \"must\" reading in the way everything Stone writes is.\u003cp\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery so often, a novel comes along so electrically charged with atmosphere  and eroticism that the reader has to consume it in small morsels, stopping from time to time to digest what has been read.... Robert Stone's latest, BAY OF SOULS, is such a novel.  Bookpage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe latest addition to Robert Stone's dark canon. It's a fascinating addition. Unusual (for Stone) in its brevity, this is a highly concentrated work.... Stone gives us another wild ride, one that leaves the reader rather dazed, shaken up and moved....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003eIn Stone's intense, intricate story, moments as minor as a flashlight dropped in the water or a frustrated hunter trying to carry his kill in an unwieldy wheelbarrow are miniatures of the grotesque episodes in which Michael will later find himself.\u003cp\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Stone's BAY OF SOULS shows the author in a stylistic languor as narcotic as the Caribbean island on which the story takes place....more fun than vacationing with your family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlayboy\u003cbr\u003eHypnotic.... BAY OF SOULS takes all of this important writer's motifs to a new and unanticipated level of scrutiny.\u003cp\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStone just keeps getting better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStar Ledger\u003cbr\u003eReaders who go along with Stone on this voyage won't be disappointed.  USA Today\u003cbr\u003eA stunning work, a profound and profoundly moving meditation tethered to a runaway train. ... Bay of Souls is a triumph.  The San Diego Union-Tribune\u003cbr\u003eBottom line: Big bad voodoo dandy.\u003cp\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere as elsewhere [Stone] orchestrates the bottomless complexity of political corruption with the subtlety of a jazz composer.  The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Stone's] action scenes are taut, polished gems .... and his gift for conveying a building sense of dread is unmatched.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOutside\u003cbr\u003eAs always, Stone dares to probe the territory of personal salvation--the courage needed to find it and the consequences of not having what it takes--with unflinching steadiness.\u003cp\u003ePittsburg Post Gazette\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith steely prose, Stone cuts through to the heart of darkness lurking not in some exotic, far-flung locale, but beating insistently inside any sensitive man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSan Antonio Express-News\u003cbr\u003eBeautifull written.... a gripping book filled with profound portraits of longing and distress.\u003cp\u003eThe Detroit Free Press\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe real action of BAY OF SOULS takes place in the heart of the protagonist, and Stone handles this drama masterfully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColumbus Dispatch\u003cbr\u003eSucceeds splendidly...delicate, even beautiful.\u003cp\u003eJerusalem Post\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890206568677,"sku":"NP9780618446742","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780618446742.jpg?v=1730232758","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/bay-of-souls-a-novel-isbn-9780618446742","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}