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text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EGuest post by Kelly\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-tNgXB4WUxwQ\/VNfaAdFX0OI\/AAAAAAAAAzA\/5fvQuADH3n8\/s1600\/Robert%2BStone.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-tNgXB4WUxwQ\/VNfaAdFX0OI\/AAAAAAAAAzA\/5fvQuADH3n8\/s1600\/Robert%2BStone.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E(photo: New York Times)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 120%;\"\u003EThere are books you hold gingerly, somehow aware that they exclude a charisma, demanding respect if not immediate understanding. That’s the feeling on first encountering Robert Stone's \u003Ci\u003EDog soldiers\u003C\/i\u003E, a book that has as much to offer now as when it was first published.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-R7Y0GB9-qzM\/VNfaNG11jMI\/AAAAAAAAAzI\/Bfl6qZDxPZU\/s1600\/robertstone3.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-R7Y0GB9-qzM\/VNfaNG11jMI\/AAAAAAAAAzI\/Bfl6qZDxPZU\/s1600\/robertstone3.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E(New York Times)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 120%;\"\u003ERobert Stone died last week. He was seventy-seven and in his time had written eight novels, two short story collections and a memoir. \u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003ENot a huge count\u003C\/span\u003E. \u003Cspan style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EContemporaries\u003Cspan font-family:=\"\" new=\"\" roman=\"\" serif=\"\" style=\"font-size: 11pt\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span style=;\" times=\"\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003Esuch as Larry \u003Cspan style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #252525; font-size: 11pt;\"\u003EMcMurtry, who attended the same university writing programme as Stone, have published well into the double digits. Hard living had something to do with that, but the fact is Stone's books are monoliths. Volumes carved out of hard truths, unflinching in their attempt to appreciate the harsh reality of his time and place. They must have demanded a great deal from him.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zuLWOtL656U\/VNfaZp_e_tI\/AAAAAAAAAzQ\/E_P8N_1CToc\/s1600\/robertstone7.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zuLWOtL656U\/VNfaZp_e_tI\/AAAAAAAAAzQ\/E_P8N_1CToc\/s1600\/robertstone7.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E(Buddenbrooks)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; line-height: 120%;\"\u003EYou can see some of the character which drove the creation of those books in online interviews. There is one from toward the end of his life. Stone is at a promotion event for his last novel, \u003Ci\u003EDeath of the black-haired girl\u003C\/i\u003E. He looks exhausted, flattened by the years and the chronic pulmonary\u003Cb\u003E \u003C\/b\u003Edisease from which he eventually died. His thoughts are unfocused and seem to wonder. The book he holds trembles along with his shaking hand. The host mentions Graham Greene and Stone suddenly springs into relief. He’s filled with piss and vinegar, furious scorn;\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E“\u003Ci\u003EI hate Greene. I hate Greene’s soul. I hate his guts. I hate everything he represents. I hate his hatreds. I hate his contempt’s. I hate his falseness. I really have a deep despising of Greene….So my feeling about Greene is really one of considerable despising, as I’m sure his would be about me. I mean Graham Greene was a really good writer, there’s no way around that. I wish I could do something about that….I don’t feel unconnected to Greene but my connection to Greene is really one of hostility and rejection, because I think he made claims to knowledge and to insight that he was not properly entitled to…\u003C\/i\u003E”\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; line-height: 120%;\"\u003EThe rant is not without humour, Stone has a twinkle in his eye as he delivers it, but at the core is contempt for lack of truth. It’s pure and it’s the opinion of a man that does not write ‘entertainments’.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-9x9-bK3kke0\/VNfam3FAmlI\/AAAAAAAAAzY\/so7bj0VSi5M\/s1600\/robertstone5.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-9x9-bK3kke0\/VNfam3FAmlI\/AAAAAAAAAzY\/so7bj0VSi5M\/s1600\/robertstone5.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E(Salem Press Inc)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; line-height: 120%;\"\u003EThe knowledge at the centre of Stone's rancour is probably esoteric as much as political. Greene's problematic Catholicism does not match up with Stone's search for a truth, (or, probably, with Ston'es early life experience in a Catholic orphanage after his mother was hospitalised with schizophrenia.) His novels are full with questers, mystics but theirs is not a guilt ridden struggle with conscience, or a way of getting your leg over, but rather a search for transcendental reality.\u003Cb\u003E \u003C\/b\u003EIt’s a quality which became more developed as Stone's career progresses and is most apparent in novels such as \u003Ci\u003EOutbridge reach\u003C\/i\u003E, \u003Ci\u003EDamascus gate\u003C\/i\u003E and \u003Ci\u003EBay of souls\u003C\/i\u003E. In his Paris Review interview Stone described himself as a theologian but it would probably be closer to the mark to say his inclinations were gnostic, not interested in theory but, rather, direct spiritual experience. \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; line-height: 120%;\"\u003EIn a memoir on The \u003Ci\u003EJewish Daily Forward\u003C\/i\u003E website Abe Mezrich talks of Stone's fascination with the Kabballah. Mezrich attributes Stone's attraction to the teaching that God is a force withdrawn from the universe, likening it to Stone's own experience of being abandoned by his father soon after birth. The rooting of the numinous in concrete, painful experience is one which Stone returns to again and again in his writing. The process is perilous, dangerous and quixotic, the cost is huge, but for Stone this is where the spark is found.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-a7P89fUTuEM\/VNfa3rfwcSI\/AAAAAAAAAzg\/dEL8MFIPMU0\/s1600\/images.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-a7P89fUTuEM\/VNfa3rfwcSI\/AAAAAAAAAzg\/dEL8MFIPMU0\/s1600\/images.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E(The Morning News)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; line-height: 120%;\"\u003EStone was also concerned with place. His novels are set in Central America, Mexico, Jerusalem, Haiti, Vietnam and the open Atlantic Ocean. Even in the American novels settings are marked, New Orleans and California in the late 60s. Places with character. Places with their own mythologies. There is a romance in their portrayal, appreciation of strange dangers and exotic attractions, of the tiny details and customs that make up their charisma. Stone himself admitted that his luck of productivity could be at least partly attributed to his\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ewanderlust\u003C\/span\u003E, something that it is hard to begrudge given the\u0026nbsp;tantalising lucidity in which he presents these locales.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3Vws0SMHw-4\/VNfbBEF9AiI\/AAAAAAAAAzo\/dLkMASOCaX4\/s1600\/robertstone2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3Vws0SMHw-4\/VNfbBEF9AiI\/AAAAAAAAAzo\/dLkMASOCaX4\/s1600\/robertstone2.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E(Interview Magazine)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; line-height: 120%;\"\u003EThough there was pleasure to be had in his sense of place, that satisfaction was always eclipsed by serious purpose. Stone was concerned with those areas for their political significance, for the ready example they offered of 20th century American adventurism and its consequences. It seems a pity that we are to be robbed of his vision just as his novels reached the cusp of our modern world. The \u003Ci\u003EDeath of the black-haired girl\u003C\/i\u003E portrays the post 9\/11 world but does not touch on the many wars in the Middle-East or the moral fallout of these conflicts on the world and American society. It seems that had he lived and produced one more novel Stone might have shown that we have not learned much over the course of his lifetime. That we have come full circle and back to the \u003Ci\u003EDog soliders \u003C\/i\u003Eyears\u003Ci\u003E. \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E-\u003C\/i\u003EKelly\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003ELinks\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: blue;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2845\/the-art-of-fiction-no-90-robert-stone\"\u003EThe Art of Fiction no 90 - Paris Review interview.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ch2 style=\"line-height: 27.0pt; margin-top: 9.0pt;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/culture\/robert-stone-death-of-the-black-haired-girl\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;\"\u003EThe TotalAntitotalist Robert Stone - \u0026nbsp;InterviewMagazine interview\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"line-height: 27.0pt; margin-top: 9.0pt;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L_pIPYm8vkA\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: blue;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;\"\u003EReferenced Youtube interview\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"background: white; font-weight: normal;\"\u003E(Graham Greene comments start at 16:39)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/articles\/212751\/why-robert-stone-was-one-of-greatest-non-jewish-je\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: blue;\"\u003EWhy Robert Stone was one of the greatest non-Jewish Jewish writers\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/articles\/212751\/why-robert-stone-was-one-of-greatest-non-jewish-je\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: blue;\"\u003E – TheJewish Daily Forward.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #9fc5e8;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003EAvailable form Auckland Libraries\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: blue;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: blue;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E-\u003Cspan style=\"color: blue;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.elgar.govt.nz\/record=b1010712~S1\"\u003EDog soldiers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #252525;\"\u003E-\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.elgar.govt.nz\/record=b2543677~S1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: blue;\"\u003EChildren of light\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #252525;\"\u003E-\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.elgar.govt.nz\/record=b1088265~S1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: blue;\"\u003EDamascus gate\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #252525;\"\u003E-\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.elgar.govt.nz\/record=b2795618~S1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: blue;\"\u003EDeath of the black-haired girl\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #252525;\"\u003E-\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.elgar.govt.nz\/record=b2480050~S1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: blue;\"\u003EFun with problems: stories\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #252525;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: blue;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: blue;\"\u003E                                 \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: blue;\"\u003E-\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.elgar.govt.nz\/record=b2205386~S1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: blue;\"\u003EPrime green: remembering the sixties\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/371397977886720439\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/02\/robert-stone-1937-2015.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/371397977886720439"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/371397977886720439"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/02\/robert-stone-1937-2015.html","title":"Robert Stone 1937-2015"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-tNgXB4WUxwQ\/VNfaAdFX0OI\/AAAAAAAAAzA\/5fvQuADH3n8\/s72-c\/Robert%2BStone.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}}]}});