We were stardust Robert Stone's kaleidoscopic tour of the song, celebration, and chaos leading into the age of Woodstock

The Boston Globe | January 7, 2007| | Copyright

BOOK REVIEW

Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties

By Robert Stone

HarperCollins, 240 pp., $25.95

Every generation has a few writers who manage to be where history is shifting under their feet: war zones or cultural crucibles or cracks in society's wall. Brilliant chronicler of the geopolitics of irony and doom, Robert Stone has wandered the planet in his fiction - Latin America, Jerusalem, Vietnam, the high seas of a sailing race around the world. Born in New York in 1937, raised by a single mother who suffered from schizophrenia, he got a piecemeal Jesuit education and soon struck out on his ...

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