“The Stones of Summer” by Dow Mossman. Hardcover. Sterling, 2003. 608 Pages

“The Stones of Summer” by Dow Mossman • Hardcover • Sterling Publishing, 2003 * 608 Pages Condition: Excellent ———————————— Originally published to glowing reviews in 1972, Dow Mossman's extraordinary debut is a sweeping coming-of-age novel that developed a passionate cult following - even as it went out of print for more than twenty years. It recently inspired director Mark Moskowitz's award-winning documentary film Stone Reader, which was embraced by readers across the country and described by Peter Rainer in New York magazine as "a marvelous literary thriller that gets at the way books can stay with people forever." ————— From Publishers Weekly: After its 1972 publication, this sprawling, Great American Novel-style epic garnered comparison to Faulkner, its saga of rural dynastic decline; Salinger, its mood of youthful alienation; and Joyce, for its cryptically allusive, stream-of-consciousness renditions of the private psyche. The novel follows writer Dawes Williams from boyhood on his grandfather's ranch, through an adolescence of drinking and joyriding, to an unstable adulthood in which he becomes the voice of the 1960s' lost generation. Long out of print before this reissue, the novel has generated a cult following among those who find in its intense imagery the portrait of the young artist's soul.