A Flag for Sunrise
Author: Robert Stone
An Astonishing Saga of Politics, War, and Americans Out of Place, by a National Book Award Winner!,,Possessed of astonishing dramatic, emotional, and philosophical resonance, A Flag for Sunrise is a novel in the grand tradition about Americans drawn into the maelstrom of a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. From the book’s inception, readers will be….Read More
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