Dog Soldiers
novel by Stone
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discussed in biography
- In Robert Stone
His second novel, Dog Soldiers (1974), concerns the legacy of corruption of the Vietnam War. It won the 1975 National Book Award, and Stone cowrote the screenplay for the film adaptation, Who’ll Stop the Rain (1978).
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place in American literature
- In American literature: The influence of Raymond Carver
His Dog Soldiers (1974) was a grimly downbeat portrayal of the drugs-and-Vietnam generation, and A Flag for Sunrise (1981) was a bleak, Conradian political novel set in Central America. Stone focused more on the spiritual malaise of his characters than on their ordinary lives. He wrote…
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