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A Flag for Sunrise Paperback – March 10, 1992
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- Print length448 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherVintage
- Publication dateMarch 10, 1992
- Dimensions5.2 x 0.97 x 8 inches
- ISBN-100679737626
- ISBN-13978-0679737629
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- Publisher : Vintage (March 10, 1992)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 448 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0679737626
- ISBN-13 : 978-0679737629
- Item Weight : 13 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.2 x 0.97 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #162,457 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #515 in Political Fiction (Books)
- #11,174 in Literary Fiction (Books)
- #14,216 in Suspense Thrillers
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ROBERT STONE was a serial entrepreneur – an enterprising individual, mostly on the wrong side of the law, who spent twenty-five years operating all over the world, before being arrested in Switzerland as a result of an international manhunt led by an Organised Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. Over the course of his career, Stone earned and lost several lifetimes’ worth of fortunes, went to prison on three continents, used dozens of aliases, saw men die, and masterminded one of the biggest marijuana smuggling operations in criminal history. Fuel smuggling in Africa, trading fuel with generals, rebels and businessman, was both his career high and, ultimately, what brought him down.
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Especially amazing is the way Stone fleshes out a set of characters, Justin Feeney, Holliwell, Pablo Tabor, Naftali et al, all of whom exhibit what it is really like to be a human being in full ambivalence and confusion, and yet the writing is not at all ambivalent and confused, but pushes to the very limits of verbal expression to say what it is really like to be alive in a fallen, broken world, our world.
One of the reasons the book doesn't date is because it strikes at the heart of the American assumption that we have the right to be in charge, an assumption still working itself out in other faraway places that tragically resemble Stone's imaginary Central American country. But the book is not only effective because it is relevant to ongoing cultural issues. There are incredible set-pieces, Holliwell's drunken lecture, the conversation between Naftali and Tabor, the violence on board the vessel Cloud, the climactic events. Exactly where everyone's allegiance really lies is kept ambiguous enough that you have to really stay alert to work through the fog of paranoia that provides the overall atmosphere of the story, even though there is plenty of pitiless Caribbean sunlight piercing that fog.
Having been to Costa Rica and Panama in the last two years very strong descriptive prose without impeding the narrative
Several vivid characterizations but utterly cynical as opposed to Dog where there was one character who you could at least root for
An interlocking plot with three strands which I found ultimately implausible
Saints and sinners compete in this Third World nightmare, each with a different agenda. It's an ideological train wreck and the ultimate victims are the disenfranchised. The name of the game is greed and the players are the usual: privately owned corporations, interested governments, a militia trained to fight insurrection, various criminals, religious zealots and a panoply of hired spies and assorted operatives. Our personal guide is Frank Holliwell, an American anthropologist with "Company" ties from his days in Vietnam, visiting the region ostensibly to give a lecture. Holliwell becomes one more pawn in a dangerous game with incredibly high stakes.
In the final act, no one is who he seems in this Darwinian struggle for dominance. The common people are disposable, the cause is mutable and the quality of civilization a casualty of events. Enter at your own risk, this is Robert Stone at his best. But know this: you step into chaos in this novel (with no separate chapters) that jolts from one state of anxiety to another, watching over your shoulder at every turn.
• Holliwell is an American academic who spent time in Vietnam before going to Honduras to speak at the university. He is drafted by a pair of CIA agents to come with them to the fictional country of Tecan.
• Pablo Tabor is an awol, drug-addled Coast Guardsman who joins up with a group of gun runners who are heading to Tecan.
• Sister Justin is a beautiful young nun who works in a mission on the Caribbean coast of Tecan. She questions not only her faith, but her reasons for staying in a country where she is not wanted.
• Father Eagan is an elderly priest who works in the mission with Sister Justin. He’s driven to madness after seeing the frozen body of a young woman who was killed by a psycopath who roams the beaches of Tecan.
Robert Stone has written a story that is at times brilliant and mystical, at times unfathomably abstract. He beautifully portrays the lives of four people suffering from the disillusionment and drift that infected so many post-Vietnam Americans. This is not an uplifting book. By the end, the reader is left with the same sense of despair and emptiness that consumes all four characters.
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Pablo Tabor lives the hand to mouth existence of a speed freak existing only in the moment searching for the feeling the drug provides. He kills his two dogs at the beginning of the story which pretty much ends any empathy the reader may feel toward his character.
It's a bit of a tough read but worth the effort.