Ten Thousand Mile Mistake
Thomas Powers: Robert Stone in Saigon, 18 February 2021
Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone
by Madison Smartt Bell.
Doubleday, 588 pp., £27, March 2020,978 0 385 54160 2 Show More
by Madison Smartt Bell.
Doubleday, 588 pp., £27, March 2020,
The Eye You See With: Selected Non-Fiction
by Robert Stone, edited by Madison Smartt Bell.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 320 pp., £20.99, April 2020,978 0 618 38624 6 Show More
by Robert Stone, edited by Madison Smartt Bell.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 320 pp., £20.99, April 2020,
‘Dog Soldiers’, A Flag for Sunrise’, Outerbridge Reach’
by Robert Stone, edited by Madison Smartt Bell.
Library of America, 1216 pp., £35, March 2020,978 1 59853 654 6 Show More
by Robert Stone, edited by Madison Smartt Bell.
Library of America, 1216 pp., £35, March 2020,
“... Stone was hazy about the details. Bell says he visited the edge of a battle known as Operation Dewey Canyon II. An ordinary soldier on the scene spotted him as a war tourist and cursed him with the bitter hope ‘I might … get my ass killed outright.’ If an ordinary soldier thought that was even possible then it probably was, and honour was ... ”