A Hall of Mirrors. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967.
First edition of the author’s first book. Signed by him on the half-title.
Octavo. [vi], [1]-409, [1, blank] pp. Publisher’s grey cloth backstrip over dark grey cloth boards, front cover stamped in black, spine lettered in black, dust jacket. Jacket spine very lightly browned, some minor wear to corners, else a near fine copy.
Robert Stone (born 1937) is a highly acclaimed American novelist, whose novels have garnered many prestigious prizes. Hall of Mirrors won the William Faulkner Foundation award for Best First Novel, and the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship award. The novel takes place in New Orleans in the shadow of right-wing racism, but is written in the style of Beat literature, and populated with psychologically unstable characters. It was the basis for the 1970 film WUSA, directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The novel's success led to a Guggenheim Fellowship for Stone, and began his career as a writer and teacher.
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