One of the author's ten best Hollywood novels, as shared at Publishers Weekly:Children of Light by Robert Stone (1986)Read about another book on the list.
I love this novel’s pacing and crisp dialogue; the deftness with which Stone draws his colorful minor characters; and the authority with which he handles the details of a film set. Divorced screenwriter, playwright and actor Gordon Walker is a major league coke addict, alcoholic and ladies man. Despite all good advice to the contrary, he insists on travelling from LA to the Mexico film set where his screenplay (an adaptation of the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin) is being shot to visit old flame Lee Verger, the movie’s schizophrenic star. You know it’s not going to be pretty, and it isn’t.
Children of Light is among David Bowman's five great noir novels from the post-Chandler generations and Jane Ciabattari's five best novels on Hollywood.
--Marshal Zeringue
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