Robert Stone — Children of Light

London, Andre Deutsch, 1986. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this touching novel from Robert Stone. The story tracks the lives of Gordon Walker, a failed playwright in his 40s and modestly successful screenwriter-actor, and his old flame Lu Anne 'Lee Verger' Bourgeois Morgen, a successful actress who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Gordon, an alcoholic drug addict whose wife has left him and who has a bad relationship with his children, goes to Mexico to crash the making of a movie version of Kate Chopin's The Awakening that Lu Anne is starring in, and discovers that she has gone off of her medication in an attempt to more fully embody her character. In a black cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Light shelfwear to the boards. Dustwrapper is smart, with just a label to the rear. Ink signature to front free-endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.