A Flag for Sunrise

…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 a lean, furious Hollywood novel in Children of Light (1986) and captured some…

…the setting of his novel A Flag for Sunrise (1981), about four individuals in a corrupt poverty-stricken country ripe for revolution. Children of Light (1986) features a debauched screenwriter and a schizophrenic actress, both in decline. Stone’s fifth novel, Outerbridge Reach (1992), was a well-received story of a foundering marriage…