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 · A Stone Boat. Andrew Solomon tells an exquisitely perceptive story of family, identity, and the changes wrought by grief and loss. Harry, an internationally celebrated concert pianist, arrives in Paris to confront his glamorous mother about his homosexuality. Instead, he /5(39). Part eulogy, part confession, and part soliloquy on forgiveness, A Stone Boat is a luminous evocation of the destructive and regenerative, all-encompassing love between a son and his mother, by America’s foremost chronicler of personal and familial resilience/5(30). Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts; winner of the National Book Award; and an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, and the .

A Stone Boat. Authors. Andrew Solomon. Files. Document Type. Book. Description. The dignified sunset of a woman dying from cancer, told by her adoring son. The woman uses her illness to pressure him to abandon his homosexuality and become involved with a girl. Publication Date. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for A STONE BOAT By Andrew Solomon *Excellent Condition* at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! a stone boat by Andrew Solomon Love and death make dramatic entrances in this elegiac first novel by nonfiction writer Solomon (The Ivory Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost, ) about a young concert pianist who plays for time while his mother is dying of cancer.

A Stone Boat. Part eulogy and part confession, A Stone Boat is a luminous and moving evocation of the love between a son and his mother. Reviews. Purchase. He has also written a novel, A Stone Boat, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award and The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost. His TED talks have been viewed over ten million times. He lives in New York and London and is a dual national. For more information, visit the author’s website at www.doorway.ru A STONE BOAT. by Andrew Solomon ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, Love and death make dramatic entrances in this elegiac first novel by nonfiction writer Solomon (The Ivory Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost, ) about a young concert pianist who plays for time while his mother is dying of cancer. First-person narrator Harry is under 30, gay, and always striving for perfection in his music, his sexual partners, and his aesthetic rhetoric, with which he tries heroically (and.