{"product_id":"children-of-light-paperback","title":"Children of Light - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Stone\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy \"one of the most impressive novelists of his generation\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eChildren of Light\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing, indelible love story of two ravaged spirits, played out under the merciless, magnifying prism of Hollywood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGordon Walker, screenwriter and actor, has systematically ruined his family and his health with cocaine and alcohol. Lee Verger is an actress of uncommon and unfulfilled promise, whom Gordon has known since the days when they were both young and fearless, and whose New Orleans childhood has left her with a tenuous hold on sanity. During the shooting of a film on the Pacific coast of Mexico, they resume a ritual struggle in which their desperate love for each other will either save or destroy them.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA searing, indelible love story of two ravaged spirits--a screenwriter and an actress-- played out under the merciless, magnifying prism of Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Stone's first novel, \u003ci\u003eA Hall of Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e, won a William Faulkner Foundation Award. \u003ci\u003eDog Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e received a National Book Award, and \u003ci\u003eA Flag for Sunrise\u003c\/i\u003e won both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award. His other honors include a Guggenheim fellowship, an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the John Dos Passos Prize for literature, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Both \u003ci\u003eA Hall of Mirrors \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDog Soldiers \u003c\/i\u003ewere made into major motion pictures. Mr. Stone dies in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 10, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758584430880,"sku":"9780679735939","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c0d5aab2b575996797c4f7b857bd4ad8_d73308d0-ed0d-4d53-96a8-3236847dec57.webp?v=1780129823","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/children-of-light-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}