A Child's Night Dream

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. N2 - A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Oliver Stone on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and chipping on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. An unforgettable American anti-hero joins the literary canon with A Child's Night Dream, the arresting tale of an alienated youth who takes to the road on an odyssey toward hell and the wholeness that beckons beyond. 9.5"x6.5", 236 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. This is a novel that seethes with rage, writhes with pain, and searches with soaring, incantatory language for a psychic unity that forever eludes its protagonist, the young Oliver Stone. Like Dean Moriarty in On the Road, the fictional Oliver Stone is alienated from the stultifying American nation in which he lives, and, abandoning his parents and his Ivy League education for Vietnam, he encounters a hell far more brutal than he could have ever imagined - a world of barroom whores, psychedelic drugs, and killing fields of indescribable proportions. His head torn apart, his emotions sundered, he begins an epic voyage that will lead him through the Merchant Marine, an unceremonious return to American soil, and a flight into madness south of the border into Mexico. A Child's Night Dream is a visit into the unconscious mind, a work that celebrates the power of the dreams, propelling us to the brink of reality and then steering us back to calmer waters. Set across three continents, it is the harrowing journey of a young man torn from one state of consciousness to another. It is a trip that no reader will soon forget.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.