Robert Stone — A Hall of Mirrors

London, The Bodley Head, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of American novelist Robert Stone's 'A Hall of Mirrors' - of only a 1000 estimated to have been published. 'A Hall of Mirrors' was Stone's first novel. As written in the synopsis, "This is the story of three young Americans who arrive in a tired, littered New Orleans at the end of the Madis Gras in 1962. Rheinhardt, the disc jockey, ex-musician, broke and alcoholic, rolls in on a bus looking for a job. Geraldine, wandering daughter of West Virginia, comes by way of Texas on a banana truck, with a still raw cut down the side of her face, the parting gift of her last man. Morgain Rainey, devoutly religious son of Southern gentility, returns from South America with a confused but persistent sense of his mission towards a suffering humanity." Robert Stone (1937) is an American novelist. He won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1975 for his novel Dog Soldiers and was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and once for the PEN/Faulkner Awards.Dog Soldiers was adapted as a film, Who'll Stop the Rain in 1978 starring Nick Nolte, and Time magazine included it in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. His best known work is characterized by action-tinged adventures, political concerns and dark humor. Many of his novels are set in unusual, exotic landscapes of raging social turbulence, such as the Vietnam War; a post-coup violent banana republic in Central America; Jim Crow-era New Orleans, and late 1990's Jerusalem. In a blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Externally, smart. Some bumping and marks to front and rear boards, with damp stain to the spine tail. Dust wrapper good with slight handling marks and tape marks to the interior. Tide mark to the wrap, heavier to the spine. Ink inscription to front pastedown. Tape marks to front and rear pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean throughout. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Good.