BAY OF SOULS Hardcover - 2003
by Stone, Robert
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
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- Title BAY OF SOULS
- Author Stone, Robert
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
- Date 2003
- Bookseller's Inventory # 40345
- ISBN 9780395963494 / 0395963494
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.94 x 0.88 in (21.84 x 15.09 x 2.24 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects College teachers, Islands
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002192171
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Michael Ahearn, a professor at a rural college, sheds his comfortable assumptions when he becomes obsessed with a new faculty member from the Caribbean, Lara Purcell. An expert in Third World politics, Lara is seductive, dangerous — and in thrall, she claims, to a voodoo spirit who has taken possession of her soul.
Impassioned and determined, Michael pursues Lara to her native island of St. Trinity, heedless of the political upheaval there. Together they desperately attempt to reclaim all that Lara has lost. Yet island intrigue ensnares them. Lara sacrifices herself to ritual and superstition. Michael is caught unawares in a high-stakes smuggling scheme. In his feverish state of mind, the world becomes an ever-shifting phantasmagoria. He is, himself, possessed.
In Bay of Souls, readers will recognize the trademarks of Stone’s greatest fiction: the American embroiled in Third World corruption, the diplomats and covert operatives, the idealists and opportunists. Yet here the author’s sights are set inward, to a place where politics is superfluous, experience unreliable. Never before has Stone probed so powerfully the psychological depths of one man’s mind. What he finds there defies expectations.
