Children of Light is the fourth published novel by U. S. writer Robert Stone. It was published in 1986.

Children of Light is the fourth published novel by U. In the front matter of the published version of the novel, Stone acknowledges that during the writing of this novel he received assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts and a residency at the Villa Serbelloni.

ROBERT STONE CHILDREN of LIGHT Robert Stone’s first novel, A Hall of Mirrors, won a William Faulkner Foundation Award. Dog Soldiers received a National Book Award, and A Flag for Sunrise won. Robert Stone’s first novel, A Hall of Mirrors, won a William Faulkner Foundation Award. Dog Soldiers received a National Book Award, and A Flag for Sunrise won both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Children Of Light book. Abandoned by his wife, Gordon needs something more - love  . With this book he drags those obsessions to a movie set in Mexico where most of the people are trying to live a dream life.

Richly literate, moves the reader beyond despair, to something approaching transcendence, and confirms Robert Stone as one of America's finest writers.

Robert Stone's first novel, A Hall of Mirrors, won a William Faulkner Foundation Award. Dog Soldiers received a National Book Award, and A Flag for Sunrise won both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award

Robert Stone's first novel, A Hall of Mirrors, won a William Faulkner Foundation Award. His other honors include a Guggenheim fellowship, an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the John Dos Passos Prize for literature, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Both A Hall of Mirrors and Dog Soldiers were made into major motion pictures.

They had watched Bruce Dern in Coming Home, Joan Crawford in Humoresque, James Mason in the second A Star Is Born and Lee Verger in The Awakening. ized screen before them. March stood clad in his bathrobe in the character of Norman Mayne. Hey, he called to Janet Gaynor. Mind if I take just one more look?. Old Drogue picked up the remote-control panel and stopped the frame. His eyes were filled with tears. Listen to me, he told the others, this guy was the greatest screen actor of all time. That line-the emotion under.

Gordon Walker, screenwriter and actor, has systematically ruined his family and his health with cocaine and alcohol. Lee Verger is an actress of uncommon and unfulfilled promise, whom Gordon has known since the days when they were both young and fearless, and whose New Orleans childhood has left her with a tenuous hold on sanity.

Michael Morgan (5/3/2015 9:16:00 AM). Brilliant, convincing handling of pentameter.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Octavo, original half purple cloth, original dust jacket. whose Hall of Mirrors won the Faulkner Award for a first novel in 1967 and Dog Soldiers a National Book Award in 1975, has been critically compared to Conrad, Faulkner, Hemingway, Hammett and Raymond Chandler. In Children of Light, his fourth novel, Stone focuses on Hollywood in a novel rich with Shakespearean undercurrents: "a fine, complex, often funny tale, full of lights and shadows, with great dialogue and a sharp sense of character and place" (New York Times). Stone is an amazingly deft novelist.