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A Hall Of Mirrors Paperback – April 2, 1997

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Rheinhardt, a disk jockey and failed musician, rolls into New Orleans looking for work and another chance in life. What he finds is a woman physically and psychically damaged by the men in her past and a job that entangles him in a right-wing political movement. Peopled with civil rights activists, fanatical Christians, corrupt politicians, and demented Hollywood stars, A Hall of Mirrors vividly depicts the dark side of America that erupted in the sixties. To quote Wallace Stegner, "Stone writes like a bird, like an angel, like a circus barker, like a con man, like someone so high on pot that he is scraping his shoes on the stars."

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ROBERT STONE (1937–2015) was the acclaimed author of eight novels and two story collections, including Dog Soldiers, winner of the National Book Award, and Bear and His Daughter, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His memoir, Prime Green, was published in 2007.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ecco; Edition Unstated (April 2, 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0395860288
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0395860281
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.94 x 8.25 inches
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ROBERT STONE was a serial entrepreneur – an enterprising individual, mostly on the wrong side of the law, who spent twenty-five years operating all over the world, before being arrested in Switzerland as a result of an international manhunt led by an Organised Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. Over the course of his career, Stone earned and lost several lifetimes’ worth of fortunes, went to prison on three continents, used dozens of aliases, saw men die, and masterminded one of the biggest marijuana smuggling operations in criminal history. Fuel smuggling in Africa, trading fuel with generals, rebels and businessman, was both his career high and, ultimately, what brought him down.

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Arthur
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2023
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A huge fan of Stone but saved his first for last. Stylistically it is a little different than his other novels. Because I am familiar with his later work, I also found it fascinating to see a great artist at work as a young man...
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Mark Clegg
4.0 out of 5 stars Fictional Account of an Ugly Era in America
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2016
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When it comes to spinning stories of 1960's New Orleans as the backdrop, I think of this as the anti "Confederacy of Dunces."
This book captures the stink and grime of an impoverished city with a phantasmagorical plot featuring over the top right wing rabble rousers, civil rights con artists, drunk dreamers and corrupt politicians.

One can easily see how this festering swamp of racism, paranoia and corruption hatched a Lee Harvey Oswald or Jim Garrison - they would fit right in as characters in this book.

This is a humidity soaked and alcohol drenched journey though the the underbelly of an America in the throes of one of its ugliest eras, as the backlash against civil rights reached its peak and the war in Indochina was just beginning. Unemployment, failure, race riots and poverty pervade the French Quarter, not Mardi Gras parades or tourist frivolity. Even temporary success is met with complete cynicism, as its lucky beneficiaries are all to aware of its fleeting nature.

A tough read, but an entertaining rebuttal to those who wax nostalgic about the "good old days." Things may look bad now, but we have experienced far worse.
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K. Douglas Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars This Book Gets Better With Age
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2007
This book is as wise and penetrating today as when it was written. In this age of predatory capitalists aligned with the Christian right, Stone's corrupt evangelists and attorneys come alive again in New Orleans. Amid this corruption, broken people try to live, love and survive.

Stone's language is poetically compressed, and his range of imagination uncovers detail and image that lesser writers would never discover. It is astonishing that this is a first novel. It is truly a "Great American Novel" on par with anything Faulkner ever wrote. If we did not live in an age of cultural lobotomy, he would certainly get the attention that he deserves.

How often do we read something that leaves us changed? Not often. Read this book if you want to go home to the best part of yourself.
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Jack Wendelken
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent writer
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2011
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Robert Stone is a gifted writer. I have read three novels by Stone. "A Flag for Sunrise", "Dog Soldiers" and "Hall of Mirrors". "A Flag for Sunrise" is my favorite but the other two are close behind.

Stone's main characters are primarily extremely disillusioned people. Alchoholics,drug addicts,sociopaths--or combinations of these things. But fundamentally they are disatisfied with their lives. The way Stone describes the alchohol and drug trips--and the disillusionment of his characters--makes one wonder if perhaps,he has been there himself.

It seems obvious that Stone's writer's voice resonates with the style of Hemmingway and Graham Greene--and draws deeply from the themes of Greene and Hemmingway. Most assuredly he has chosen very gifted writers to empathsize with.

I definitely recommend all three of these novels. Perhaps beginning with "A Hall of Mirrors" and following it up with "Dog Soldiers" and then finishing with my personal favorite "A Flag for Sunrise" Stone will not disappoint you. He is an incredibly gifted writer.
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J. Hock
5.0 out of 5 stars Read it and fear !
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2010
This novel is more topical than ever in today's political enviroment . Substitute Fox News for WUSA , or how about viewing a two-bit alcoholic DJ like Reinhardt as a potential Glen Beck . Stone was a prophet!
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Robert Hyde
3.0 out of 5 stars A young writer's hell on earth
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2021
Only the very young Stone's expert writing and vivid descriptions of a hell scape peopled by the lost sustain this incredibly depressing and troubling novel. Wanting the book to go somewhere, it never does.
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cortright Mcmeel
5.0 out of 5 stars Tour De Force
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2003
This book consumes the reader with its ideas and its poetics. It is Apocolyptic literary fireworks, man. Morgan Rainey, the warped Jehovah. Rhienhardt, the suffering Judas. Geraldine, the sacrificial Virgin whore. New Orleans tranformed into a Dantean Inferno, a Boschian landscape of demonic avian fascists, lecherous, dragon like, regal homosexuals like Lester Clotho, shimmering toothed Hollywood vagabonds and ice-evil Capitalists with frozen souls. This book is pure inspiriational genius. A 60's morality tale that reads like an insane, surreal masterpiece hybrid of Conrad's & Chandler's novels.
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