Books
April, 1997
Robert stone is a heavyweight champion of contemporary American fiction. Squarely in the Hemingway tradition, he embraces big themes and commands an array of prose styles that modulate from elegiac to electrifying. His new book of stories. Bear and His Daughter (Houghton Mifflin), reads more like a collection of fragments from novels-in-progress. But what marvelous fragments.In "Absence of Mercy," Mackay, a working-class Irishman, instinctively comes to the aid of an elderly woman acco...
