Bear and His Daughter

Stories

• Author(s): Robert Stone,
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Pages: 222
• ISBN_13: 9780395901342
  ISBN_10: 0395901340
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors) , Fiction / Literary , Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies , Fiction / Romance / Collections & Anthologies , Fiction / Short Stories (single author) , Fiction / Medical , Fiction / Sea Stories , Fiction / Crime , Literary Collections / American / General , Literary Collections / Essays , Juvenile Fiction / General ,

Description:... In "Miserere," Mary Urquhart is a widowed librarian whose unspeakable secret concerning the death of her husband and children causes her to undertake a most unusual and grisly role in the anti-abortion crusade. In his classic and widely anthologized story " Helping" Stone examines with beautifully composed acuity a moment of climactic confrontation in the life of Elliot, a therapist beset by his own demons. Reminiscent of Dog Soldiers and A Flag for Sunrise, "Under the Pitons" is a harrowing story about Blessington, a somewhat reluctant participant in a drug-running scheme, and the grim and unexpected consequences of his involvement. And finally, the title story, a novella published here for the first time, is a powerful, riveting account of the tangled lines that weave together the relationship of a father and his grown daughter.