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Death of the Black-Haired Girl by Robert Stone; OverDrive, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Fast-paced [and] riveting . . . Stone is one of our transcendently great American novelists.” — Madison Smartt Bell “Brilliant.” — Washington Post At an elite college in a once-decaying New England city, Steven Brookman has come to a decision. A brilliant but careless professor, he has determined that for the sake of his marriage, and his soul, he must end his relationship with Maud Stack, his electrifying student, whose papers are always late yet always incandescent. But Maud is a young woman whose passions are not easily curtailed, and their union will quickly yield tragic and far-reaching consequences. Death of the Black-Haired Girl is an irresistible tale of infidelity, accountability, the allure of youth, the promise of absolution, and the notion that madness is everywhere, in plain sight. “At once unsparing and generous in its vision of humanity, by turns propulsive and poetic, Death of the Black-Haired Girl is wise, brave, and beautifully just.” — Boston Globe “Unsettling and tightly wrought—and a worthy cautionary tale about capital-C consequences.” — Entertainment Weekly “A taut, forceful, lacerating novel, full of beautifully

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Robert Stone; OverDrive, Inc
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9780547760384
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Thriller, Literary Fiction
Rating
2.67 / 5 (888 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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